Reinhold Messner
Reinhold Messner
Reinhold Messneris an Italian mountaineer, adventurer, explorer, and author from the autonomous Italian province of South Tyrol...
ProfessionMountain Climber
Date of Birth17 September 1944
chance depend mountains safety turning
Over time, our only chance at safety will depend on not turning the mountains into Disneyland.
attract guarantee regions security tourists
We attract tourists to these regions where we can't guarantee their security,
things-in-life wonderful wonderful-things
The wonderful things in life are the things you do, not the things you have.
adventure perspective important
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.
memories goal important
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.
adventure possibility
Without the possibility of death, adventure is not possible.
goal
Those that reach their goals perish.
dies
I didn’t go up there to die. I went up there to live.
nature travel tired
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....
lying fall thinking
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.
climbing doe increase
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.
self mountain way
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.
climbing impossible murder
Bolts are the murder of the impossible.
rivers mountain body
...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.