>>1560388He was an animal with absurd risk tolerance. Voytek Kurtyka is the more interesting climber in my opinion. They were briefly partners. Voytek is a brilliant philosopher and a deeply intelligent and talented man who brought hard Alpine climbing to new places. He despised the consumptive nature of peak bagging and rejected the spirit of competition altogether. He and Boukreev both viewed climbing as a personal and spiritual act of purification.
