Reinhold Messner Quotes

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  • ...seen from above, landscapes are made up of mountains and watercourses. Just as a transparent model of the human body consists of a framework of bone and a network of arteries, the earth's crust is structured in mountain ridges, river, creeks, and gullies.

    Rivers   Mountain   Body  
  • If you have a high-way on Everest, you don't meet the mountain. If everything is prepared, and you have a guide who is responsible for your security, you cannot meet the mountain. Meeting mountains is only possible if you . . . are out there in self-sufficiency.

    Self   Mountain   Way  
  • I didn’t go up there to die. I went up there to live.

    Dies  
  • I want to solve a climbing problem in the mountains, not in the sporting goods store.

  • My market value increases with every outside critisism. Therefore, the frequently raised contention that I am the most highly critisized mountaineer does not disturb me in the slightest.

    Climbing   Doe   Increase  
  • When I rest I feel utterly lifeless except that my throat burns when I draw breath... I can scarcely go on. No despair, no happiness, no anxiety. I have not lost the mastery of my feelings, there are actually no more feelings. I consist only of will. After each few metres this too fizzles out in unending tiredness. Then I think nothing. I let myself fall, just lie there. For an indefinite time I remain completely irresolute. Then I make a few steps again.

    Lying   Fall   Thinking  
  • I was in continual agony; I have never in my life been so tired as on the summit of Everest that day. I just sat and sat there, oblivious to everything.

    Nature   Travel   Tired  
  • The wonderful things in life are the things you do, not the things you have.

  • Not only during the ascent, but also during the descent my willpower is dulled. The longer I climb the less important the goal seems to me, the more indifferent I become to myself. My attention has diminished, my memory is weakened. My mental fatigue is now greater than the bodily. It is so pleasant to sit doing nothing - and therefore so dangerous. Death through exhaustion is like death through freezing - a pleasant one.

  • Without the possibility of death, adventure is not possible.

  • Mountains are not fair or unfair, they are just dangerous.

    "All Fourteen 8,000ers". Book by Reinhold Messner, 1987.
  • Bolts are the murder of the impossible.

  • Those that reach their goals perish.

    Goal  
  • I always take the same perspective with each new adventure. I put myself in the position of being at the end of my life looking back. Then I ask myself if what I am doing is important to me.

    "Reinhold Messner: this much I know". Interview with Ed Douglas, www.theguardian.com. March 30, 2003.
  • In my state of spiritual abstraction, I no longer belong to myself and to my eyesight. I am nothing more than a single narrow gasping lung, floating over the mists and summits.

    Reinhold Messner (2001). “Moving Mountains: Lessons on Life and Leadership”, Executive Excellence Publishing
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