1) Altitude sickess is overrated

2) I am not scared of heights as long as I am tied to a rope

3) "Bad" weather depends completely on the context

4) Deserts are very, very lonely places

5) Your perception of a place depends almost entirely on who you experience it with

6) Magic exists

7) You don´t know how to swear until you have been stuck halfway up a sheer rock face and start getting cramp in your left foot

8) At the risk of sounding like a tree hugger, the Earth is a living, moving, powerful being

9) Dancing cures everything

10) The whole world conspires to make things happen