Reinhold Messner Quotes
- ...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…
- The wonderful things in life are the things you do, not the things you have.
- 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,…
- Mountains are not fair or unfair, they are just dangerous.
- 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…
- In my state of spiritual abstraction, I no longer belong to myself and to my eyesight. I am nothing more than a single narrow gasping…
- Bolts are the murder of the impossible.
- 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…
- 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…