I didn’t go up there to die. I went up there to live.
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,… - Reinhold Messner
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,…
- Reinhold Messner
...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 bo… - Reinhold Messner
...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 bo…
Bolts are the murder of the impossible. - Reinhold Messner
Bolts are the murder of the impossible.
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 myse… - Reinhold Messner
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 myse…
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 everythi… - Reinhold Messner
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 everythi…
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 … - Reinhold Messner
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 …
Mountains are not fair or unfair, they are just dangerous. - Reinhold Messner
Mountains are not fair or unfair, they are just 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 … - Reinhold Messner
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 …
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 h… - Reinhold Messner
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 h…
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