Reinhold Messner Quotes

#1. 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.

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#2. 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 ...

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#3. I didn't go up there to die. I went up there to live.

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#4. Those that reach their goals perish.

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#5. 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.

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#6. 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.

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#7. Bolts are the murder of the impossible.

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#8. 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.

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#9. Mountains are not fair or unfair, they are just dangerous.

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#10. 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.

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#11. Without the possibility of death,
adventure is not possible.

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#12. The wonderful things in life are the things you do, not the things you have.

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

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