Messner Quotes

#1. ... I only know that when physical and emotional reserves remain unchallenged, this feeds the spiritual cancer of a life unfulfilled.
-Reinhold Messner

Bernadette McDonald

#2. What counts are merely the experiences one gains along the way.
-Reinhold Messner

Bernadette McDonald

#3. There is no single, correct objective in mountaineering; there are only possibilities. One of them leads beyond the impossible.
- Reinhold Messner

Bernadette McDonald

#4. Mark my words, Messner: the world is waiting, it's licking its chops, to take your boy away.'" "And my

Philip Roth

#5. ... one of the most decisive factors enduring a borderline situation is the WILL TO SURVIVE.
-Reinhold Messner

Bernadette McDonald

#6. We have come a long way, we have a long way to go. In between we are somewhere.
(Attributed to Reinhold Messner?)

Kim Stanley Robinson

#7. It is said that a man is rejuvenated every seven years- that all his cells are replaced. I wonder, does that also apply to his spirit?
- Reinhold Messner

Bernadette McDonald

#8. Inner harmony is the prerequisite for any climber who seeks to push the frontiers; without it he should give up extreme mountaineering.
-Reinhold Messner

Bernadette McDonald

#9. You have to let go before you can reach.

Kate Messner

#10. Any fool can know. The point is to understand. - Einstein

Kate Messner

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

Reinhold Messner

#12. 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

#13. I love early snow now, though. Especially snow that happens when you least expect it and just sprinkles down for a while. It feels like a secret.

Kate Messner

#14. historic eruptions,

Kate Messner

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

Reinhold Messner

#16. A gust of wind rattles the window, and I look out. Leaves are whooshing all over the place, flying past horizontally as if they have engines of their own.

Kate Messner

#17. Maybe Sophie was upset but not mad. Sometimes, Ava couldn't tell the difference. She just assumed that whenever anybody wasn't happy, it was her fault.

Kate Messner

#18. [I]n spite of her work as a reference librarian, she discovered that life isn't about knowing all the answers. The best we can do is make peace with our questions, learn who we are, know our strengths, and do the best we can with the gifts we've been given while we're here.

Kate Messner

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

Reinhold Messner

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

Reinhold Messner

#21. It's a gray morning. A roll-over-and-snuggle-deeper-in-the-covers morning.

Kate Messner

#22. But you're an artist. you should know there's more to a story than the part happening right now.

Kate Messner

#23. 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.

Reinhold Messner

#24. Bolts are the murder of the impossible.

Reinhold Messner

#25. 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

#26. 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

#27. Those that reach their goals perish.

Reinhold Messner

#28. send me here, to the heart of the storm belt, for the summer.

Kate Messner

#29. True inspiration unfolds itself, not by force or it becomes fake. True intuition is also the ability to be observant.

Chris Messner

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

Reinhold Messner

#31. 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

#32. 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