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It's a kind of center, because I actually live my real life when climbing.
And it's just a way of self-findings for me.
As a child, you try everything and you play.
At first, you play, and I've already played mountain climbing in my spare time.
And from the game, it became a serious life for me as a child.
And from the game, it became a serious life for me as a child.
At first, you have to do a lot with adventure, also with fear.
Because adventure is also a bit about fear and something new.
It was also about discovering something.
And I was just a discoverer here, even if it was just outside the house.
And over these years, you can also call it unconscious romance,
it became a sport and then a serious sport.
If you want to do a sport as well, and then with the phase of life,
the relationship to the sport changes.
And today, it's just so that I'm happy when I can overcome difficulties with ease.
And I actually climb only because I climb,
but I climb to experience the eye view.
And the eye view is always great luck.
But you can also produce or construct the eye view.
But it comes at some point and you work on it.
And if you are there, that's great luck.
There are definitely a lot of sports that you can do philosophically.
And climbing is, I think, because I'm doing it.
It's a lot of fun.
Climbing is such a big spectrum, because it goes beyond pure sport and so many possibilities.
It goes from the natural experience to the field of art.
Climbing is huge.
And I'm also doing another sport.
It's not a sport to meditate anymore.
The distances that take place there, which are very close to climbing,
are archery shooting.
And I came to Korea in 1986 via a trip to North Korea.
And back then, I was very busy with the Zen Buddhism.
And then I came to Burgerschießen.
And then I started climbing.
The Gander GDR.
I know that I was a bit restricted there.
But I had a lot of friends who were from the other side of the world.
And they came here.
Which, of course, has earned me a lot.
Because when you come from all over the world to Rundstein,
and to climb with the other person, you have to be special.
And of course that has helped me a lot to get the insight into the climbing world
and also into the world overall.
The biggest intensity from that time I experienced with Kurt Albert.
We met in 1973.
And he came here as a competitor at the time.
So they had this kind of competition in mind,
which actually irritated me a bit.
But that didn't last long.
We became best friends, and we actually called each other
better than the best friends.
And with him I experienced many very strict evenings
in a lot of mountainous worlds.
We were often really a bit out of the story.
And we were lucky, but we also had the instinct.
And if you were in so many situations with each other,
then that's something great.
It's a connection that is simply unresolvable.
When my contact with the mountaineers and all over the world started,
I always thought,
man, you're a clever idiot that you're stuck at your home school.
And I sometimes had doubts about myself.
And it took a while until I realized that this is a very big treasure,
that they didn't have it.
They didn't have this connection to their home,
they didn't have a real home sometimes.
And to have a home, a place where you feel comfortable,
is something very beautiful.
And then the trips you take are much more valuable.
And I have to say, the landscape space here,
it's just something great. It's almost kitsch.
You have a tight space,
first of all, so much different landscape.
And then the infrastructure is right.
So you can also live here.
And you're not just on a visit, so to speak,
and for an adventure, for climbing,
you can also integrate climbing into life.
So it's like eating and drinking every day.
And that probably really works here.
Because the meaning of climbing changes over time,
and you're not often in the car.
And when I first came here over 900 years ago,
I still have to do the 1,000 thirds now or something.
At some point it's always sad, it's around.
And there's this opportunity where I'm still happy about it.
But a great joy makes me also people
who think climbing is something beautiful,
to lead the way,
so that they discover the same joy as I do.
And so I try to give my joy to the people
who live here.
And it's a very nice job.
It's never easy,
but if you take it seriously
and follow it with your mother, you'll be rewarded for it.
For yourself and also for the people.
Thank you.
