Reinhold Messner Professions : Mountaineer Born : September 17, 1944 Browse All Authors Top 15 quotes by Reinhold Messner The wonderful things in life are the things you do, not the things you have. Reinhold Messner possession wonderful life Without the possibility of death, Reinhold Messner possibility adventure 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 perspective important adventure Not only during the ascent, but also during the descent my willpower is dulled. The longer I climb the less important the goal Reinhold Messner important goal memories Mountains are not fair or unfair, they are just dangerous. Reinhold Messner climbing nature travel I didn’t go up there to die. I went up there to live. Reinhold Messner dies 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 mist floating spiritual Those that reach their goals perish. Reinhold Messner goal 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-sufficiency. Reinhold Messner mountain self way Bolts are the murder of the impossible. Reinhold Messner climbing murder impossible 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 increase climbing doe 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 tired nature travel ...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 mountain body rivers 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 Similar Authors Bradford Washburn mountaineer Armand Charlet mountaineer Arlene Blum mountaineer Annie Smith Peck mountaineer Anatoli Boukreev mountaineer Doug Scott mountaineer All Authors
