On Mount Everest it feels as if you are in the womb, but on K2 you are always out on the edge. — Reinhold Messner Copy Share Image
Alpinism means you go by yourself with your own responsibility, knowing that you could die. But Everest now is more like ski… — Reinhold Messner Copy Share Image
I have a very different fear if I'm all alone in the summit area of Mount Everest and if I know that… — Reinhold Messner Copy Share Image
I was in continual agony; I have never in my life been so tired as on the summit of Everest that day.… — Reinhold Messner Copy Share Image
For me the Everest solo was the icing on the cake of my climbs: the highest mountain in the world, during a… — Reinhold Messner Copy Share Image
The best climbers no longer go to the 8000ers, but to the most difficult mountains in the world which are 6000 or… — Reinhold Messner Copy Share Image
I became famous for the fact that I would break many, many limits. People said, 'He does all these crazy things.' But… — Reinhold Messner Copy Share Image
If you have a high-way on Everest, you don't meet the mountain. If everything is prepared, and you have a guide who… — 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
