I want to solve a climbing problem in the mountains, not in the sporting goods store. — Reinhold Messner Copy Share Image
I was 5 when I went up my first 10,000 ft mountain, with my parents, and I have been climbing ever since. — Reinhold Messner Copy Share Image
Climbing is not a competition, and you cannot talk in terms of 'greatest,' it means nothing. — Reinhold Messner Copy Share Image
The art of climbing is the art of survival. The best climber is the man or woman going in the most crazy… — Reinhold Messner Copy Share Image
Climbing is more of an art than a sport. It's the aesthetics of a mountain that compels me. The line of a… — Reinhold Messner Copy Share Image
The art of climbing is to go where you go knowing that you could die, but you don't die. That is adventure. — Reinhold Messner Copy Share Image
By climbing mountains we were not learning how big we were. We were finding out how breakable, how weak and how full… — Reinhold Messner Copy Share Image
There is no joy involved in climbing mountains, there is simply the challenge, the self-invented challenge, the play. — Reinhold Messner Copy Share Image
The only possibility to have a knowledge of both the Earth's nature and our own internal nature is through traditional climbing when… — Reinhold Messner Copy Share Image
In the West, the art of rock climbing is growing because it has to do with less risk, good muscles. But the… — Reinhold Messner Copy Share Image
Around half of the top alpinists have died climbing. Of course if I'm careful and turn back more often than the others,… — Reinhold Messner Copy Share Image
For me, climbing has always been about adventure and that involves difficulties, danger and exposure, so I deliberately set out to climb… — Reinhold Messner Copy Share Image
My market value increases with every outside critisism. Therefore, the frequently raised contention that I am the most highly critisized mountaineer does… — Reinhold Messner Copy Share Image
When I lost seven of my toes on Nanga Parbat and small parts of my fingertips I knew I'd never be a… — Reinhold Messner Copy Share Image
Climbing is all about freedom, the freedom to go beyond all the rules and take a chance, to experience something new, to… — Reinhold Messner Copy Share Image
For me, imagination is more important in climbing than muscle or daredevil antics. — Reinhold Messner Copy Share Image
Fame is very heavy. When there are large crowds, I'm unable to handle it. — Reinhold Messner Copy Share
The cliches that circulate in the German media about Joachim Sauer are a total fallacy. The fact is that he's his own man. He's… — Reinhold Messner Copy Share
Climbing is not a competition, and you cannot talk in terms of 'greatest,' it means nothing. — Reinhold Messner Copy Share
Life is about daring to carry out your ideas. And for me, it always comes back to the wilderness, nature, mountains. — Reinhold Messner Copy Share
I have a very different fear if I'm all alone in the summit area of Mount Everest and if I know that there is… — Reinhold Messner Copy Share
For years I was a rock climber and nothing else. I went to school, yes, and university, yes, but in my heart I was… — Reinhold Messner Copy Share
An account of an expedition is not a novel. Therefore an authentic account can never be given, let alone written down by someone who… — Reinhold Messner Copy Share
Ueli Steck, I'm absolutely certain, had a very strong inner drive to keep pushing. He set very high standards for himself. — Reinhold Messner Copy Share
I can't tell people to love mountains. They have to find their own way. — Reinhold Messner Copy Share
...seen from above, landscapes are made up of mountains and watercourses. Just as a transparent model of the human body consists of a framework… — Reinhold Messner Copy Share
Out of all the climbers of this generation, I was the one who became known to the larger public. Many of them - not… — Reinhold Messner Copy Share
Mountaineering is over. Alpinism is dead. Maybe its spirit is still alive a little in Britain and America, but it will soon die out. — Reinhold Messner Copy Share
The Dolomites are the most beautiful rock mountains in the world, but in a few million years they will just be desert. — Reinhold Messner Copy Share
