Climbing is what I do.

I offer my expertise and experience for hire in order to help a group of people reach the summit.

I respect Everest very much.

I said to Scott that the ascent seemed to be going slowly and that I was concerned descending climbers could possibly run out of oxygen before their return to camp IV.

A review of summit day photographs will show that I was clothed in the latest, highest quality, high altitude gear, comparable, if not better, than that worn by the other members of our expedition.

I am not sure the others are as committed as Rob Hall and Scott Fischer. I think there is more business now, and I know it will be impossible to stop this Everest business.

Climbing is what I do.

I don't know what being an Everest guide means. I am a coach, not a guide.

I want this book to be facts, to be important, to be history.

What we can do now is contribute to a clearer understanding of what happened that day on Everest in the hope that the lessons to be learned will reduce the risk for others who, like us, take on the challenge of the mountains.

People respected my experience, they hire me, they pay me what I am worth to coach their team.

This year my role is clear: I am a coach, a coach to sportsmen.

I travel to Jakarta, I see what an important country it is. I've been working with them for a year.

I explained I wanted to descend as quickly as possible to camp IV in order to warm myself and gather a supply of hot drink and oxygen in the event I might need to go back up the mountain to assist descending climbers.

I told them, you can succeed - it's not likely the first time, maybe 25 per cent, but you CAN succeed. You can also die. By April 16 they had already been to camp III, well ahead of most teams.

I think that people ran out of oxygen and don't really know what happened up there, maybe some of them just made things up because they weren't sure what had happened.

Concerned that others were not coming onto the summit and because I had no radio link to those below me, I began to wonder if there were difficulties down the mountain. I made the decision to descend.

There are many questions, but I cannot answer because I'm not a businessman, I am a climber.

Mountains are the cathedrals where I practice my religion.

Mountains are not stadiums where I satisfy my ambition to achieve they are the cathedrals where I practice my religion.

Mountains are not stadiums where I satisfy my ambition to achieve, they are the cathedrals where I practice my religion.

Black or white good parts are hard to come by. A good actor with a good opportunity has a shot; without the opportunity it doesn't matter how good you are.

I never get involved with the ladies I work with.

Competition is a process or variety of habitual behavior that grows out of a habit of mind.

I always wanted to have a family - that was one of my big wishes. And in school, I'd taken drama, and I'd always wanted to act. I did go to drama school in New York, Los Angeles and London, and I did small parts here and there, but I never really had the time. Modeling was always paying more.

Sometimes at the best moments a single word or a look is enough.

The danger in being closely knit is becoming miserably entangled.

I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads.

I wish I could go back in time and enjoy once more what we took for granted.

Not many people know, but my joints are extremely hypermobile, and that's why I'm more prone to injuries. That's why most of my major injuries were with the joints. I had a career-threatening wrist injury where picking up a fork to feed myself was a problem, and the thought of playing tennis again was so far from my mind.

I find that when I put my spiritual life first, the rest of my life is easy. When I put my career first, that's when I have problems.

I was never really a character actor - I was a leading man who was always cast as a character. I wanted to be Jack Nicholson or Jean Gabin.

Cardio is boring for me, so running outside helps to keep me going.

Sometimes its not the person who change its the mask that falls off.

Bores put you in a mental cemetery while you are still walking.

I was enchanted by the escape into that meticulous world that seemed real yet not... well, it seemed not real, but very detailed and meticulous, bizarre.

I've been this voice of a lot of upbeat dance tracks, but people don't really know me.

I consider a merchant someone who has a certain intuition and instinct, and - very important - knows how to run a business, knows the numbers.

One of the things I liked about playing Tony Gates in 'Line of Duty' was that I don't think he gave much thought to justifying his actions until he was under investigation.

You can't go by what things look like on paper.

My work is formal, not based on psychology.

A gentleman is any man who wouldn't hit a woman with his hat on.

You have to be able to communicate the vision to the people in your organization so that they know where and how they should direct themselves on a day-to-day basis.

Anyone who knows me knows that I am not much of a drinker.

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