Not everyone needs to aspire to be a professional mountaineer. Yet even imperfect footprints can serve as reliable markers for those who follow.

What matters is not imposing a supreme imperative, but making one think, “I could do better.”

Those who, moved by that thought, choose to climb of their own will are the ones who ultimately become better mountaineers./誰もがプロの登山家を目指す必要はない。しかし、たとえ不完全な足跡であっても、後に続く者にとって確かな道標となる。

大切なのは、絶対的な命令を押し付けることではなく、「もっとうまくできるはずだ」と思わせることだ。

その思いに突き動かされ、自らの意志で登山を選ぶ者こそが、最終的に優れた登山家となる。