Reinhold Messner famous quotes

03-24-2025

The wonderful things in life are the things you do, not the things you have.
-- Reinhold Messner

#Wonderful
Mountains are not fair or unfair, they are just dangerous.
-- Reinhold Messner

#Mountain #Unfair #Dangerous
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.
-- Reinhold Messner

#Memories #Goal #Important
Without the possibility of death, adventure is not possible.
-- Reinhold Messner

#Adventure #Possibility
...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.
-- Reinhold Messner

#Rivers #Mountain #Body
I want to solve a climbing problem in the mountains, not in the sporting goods store.
-- Reinhold Messner

#Climbing #Mountain #Want
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-sufï¬ciency.
-- Reinhold Messner

#Self #Mountain #Way
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.
-- Reinhold Messner

#Lying #Fall #Thinking
Bolts are the murder of the impossible.
-- Reinhold Messner

#Climbing #Impossible #Murder
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.
-- Reinhold Messner

#Climbing #Doe #Increase
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....
-- Reinhold Messner

#Nature #Travel #Tired
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

#Spiritual #Floating #States

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