Just Important Quotes by Reinhold Messner

Fame is very heavy. When there are large crowds, I'm unable to handle it.

— Reinhold Messner

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

Climbing is not a competition, and you cannot talk in terms of 'greatest,' it means nothing.

— Reinhold Messner

Life is about daring to carry out your ideas. And for me, it always comes back to the wilderness, nature, mountains.

— Reinhold Messner

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

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

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

Ueli Steck, I'm absolutely certain, had a very strong inner drive to keep pushing. He set very high standards for himself.

— Reinhold Messner

I can't tell people to love mountains. They have to find their own way.

— Reinhold Messner

...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

Mountains are not fair or unfair, they are just dangerous.

— Reinhold Messner

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

Bolts are the murder of the impossible.

— Reinhold Messner

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

The Dolomites are the most beautiful rock mountains in the world, but in a few million years they will just be desert.

— Reinhold Messner