Principles… A beautiful route line, if possible a direct line. To remain polyvalent. There are different rules in different disciplines. For example, in rock-climbing, dry tooling or big wall climbing the rules will never be identical. As to ethics … I try to choose "engagement", I like to find and try a beautiful line, a technical line. That means it is identically hard and engaged... I like to be in absolute privacy in mountains, all alone as on Gasherbrum I, for example. On Gasherbrum II there were a lot of people, on К2 at the end of the ascent - too. Certainly, I would prefer to be only two there, I and Hans Kammerlander face to face with the Mountain...