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- I offer my expertise and experience for hire in order to help a group of people reach the summit. — Anatoli Boukreev
- I want this book to be facts, to be important, to be history. — Anatoli Boukreev
- I don't know what being an Everest guide means. I am a coach, not a guide. — Anatoli Boukreev
- People respected my experience, they hire me, they pay me what I am worth to coach their team. — Anatoli Boukreev
- I travel to Jakarta, I see what an important country it is. I've been working with them for a year. — Anatoli Boukreev
- 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. — Anatoli Boukreev