Climbing a mountain should be approached as a surrender to the mountain rather than an act of conquering it.

“I hate I just my whole body is like why do you still use it because the view before the Summit is like everyone's begging the mother to go up for even Split Second if it's like one second please give us a give us one moment on the summit as soon as you come down you're like no I freaking conquer lik”

Climbing should not be defined by competition between individuals but by teamwork and a personal relationship with the environment.

“it's about your relationship with yourself and your environment yeah and that's for me is the most significant part of it it was that if you and I go out climbing or we do a long a 30-mile run in the middle of nowhere we're a team we have to make sure that we're working together”

Climbing Mount Everest for the sake of checking off a bucket list item or for social prestige is problematic.

“what I find disappointing is when people want to go and climb Everest to bag it and brag it mountaineering shouldn't be about that it should be about the challenge and the skills and the beauty of where you are and being part of a close-knit small team”

Mount Everest should ideally be reserved for only the most highly experienced climbers rather than being accessible to those who simply pay for a private tour.

“I agree I think it's I think this should be like a special situation for the most experienced people and I get it it takes away from these people that dedicate their lives to this stuff and then you know just some oh totally some person has got money is like oh I want to go do it”

He claims that climbing Mount Everest served as a spiritual journey that helped him overcome personal insecurities and ego.

“I wanted to really find out who I was going to be on the other side of Everest. And I didn't want to live my life for somebody else. I wanted to really prove to myself what I was capable of”

Climbing Mount Everest at high altitude is a dangerous and physically taxing endeavor where one must make critical life-or-death decisions.

“there's only a third of the air a third of the ozone so you can't survive long up there in fact if you picked us up plucked our bodies from here put us on the summit CU we're at sea level here you would pass out and die you just you can't survive”

Climbing with oxygen is a performance-enhancing practice that should be acknowledged as such, particularly by professionals.

“first of all like I think it's important like just to be clear Like Oxygen is obviously doping it is the ultimate performance enhancing substance for high altitude climbing and so like we should acknowledge that”

The choice of which mountain to climb should be driven by a genuine passion that acts as a compass, even if that passion is linked to struggle and obsession.

“I think it's truly truly a necessity to have a passion as a compass in life but to have a passion on some levels really sucks and it's hard and if it's worth it you're gonna fall on your face several times on your way to like sort of reaching the goal”

He holds the view that the extreme risks associated with mountaineering are justified by the desire to live fully and avoid complacency.

“my biggest fear is not living right like my biggest fear is actually not living and i've come to think of the world of i think of sort of human experience our experience in life on this scale of one to ten ten being like the highest highs that we experience and one being the lowest lows”