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The Sherpas play a very important role in most mountaineering expeditions, and in fact many of them lead along the ridges and up to the summit.

I enjoyed climbing with other people, good friends, but I did quite a lot of solo climbing, too.

I grew up rock climbing.

Tourism is a very big economic benefit to the Sherpa people, and also, they have very strong ties to their own social attitudes and their own religion, so fortunately, they're not too influenced by many of our Western attitudes.

We can climb mountains with self-love.

I can't climb very seriously now but I was a bit of a freak.

I feel like I'm climbing as well, if not better, than ever.

Climbing is what I do.

The best climber is the one who has the most fun.