Pablo Vierci

“There are many different reasons why I paint, but without intending it I always recreate the same scene over and over again: a group of boys with outstretched arms, standing on the freezing mountain with two helicopters arriving from the valley. I paint them again and again, but what is most curious is that every time I paint them I count the boys, never knowing whether they are greeting the helicopters when they arrive or saying goodbye when they leave. I count them and I count them again, and with tears in my eyes I always discover that there are more than sixteen.”
― Pablo Vierci, La sociedad de la nieve

“The knowledge that I have gathered is that there is nothing better and nothing that gives you more tranquillity of spirit than offering yourself in love to another. This is the most important lesson I have learned, and through this I feel at peace.”
― Pablo Vierci, Society of the Snow: The Definitive Account of the World’s Greatest Survival Story