I go to the mountains for an adventure and each time I pray I will get up and down again. — Reinhold Messner Copy Share Image
I want to look into the dark spaces in people's souls. At what happens to us when we go to the mountains. — Reinhold Messner Copy Share Image
I can't tell people to love mountains. They have to find their own way. — Reinhold Messner Copy Share Image
The mountains are dangerous. Only an unintelligent person will say they are not dangerous. — Reinhold Messner Copy Share Image
I left many different mountains but always the gods gave me a chance to go back. I was always going with a… — Reinhold Messner Copy Share Image
William Blake said 200 years ago that when man and mountains meet, something big is happening. I'm searching for the 'big.' — Reinhold Messner Copy Share Image
I go to the wild mountains where I am responsible for myself. Step by step I am making sure that I don't… — 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
Ninety per cent of the tourists climbing big mountains are on 10 mountains - and one million mountains in the world are empty. — Reinhold Messner Copy Share Image
...seen from above, landscapes are made up of mountains and watercourses. Just as a transparent model of the human body consists of… — Reinhold Messner Copy Share Image
Adventure has to do with private, personal experiences. But, the possibilities, there are millions of unclimbed mountains - I have seen in… — 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
