Quotes by Reinhold Messner - Page 3

My brother is in me. When we remember somebody else, in a certain way they are still alive. I see my brother - he is still young - looking to the Dolomites where we did our ascents. I remember those moments, so he is still together with me.
Reinhold Messner / Mountaineer
Alive
Brother
Certain
Moments
Looking
Together Me Remember
Somebody
Certain Way
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Out of all the climbers of this generation, I was the one who became known to the larger public. Many of them - not all of them, but many of them - understood they had only one chance to use me for their personal gain. And it's very easy to use me.
Reinhold Messner / Mountaineer
Chance
Easy
This Generation
Understood
Became
Climber
Public
Gain
Generation
Personal
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...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 bone and a network of arteries, the earth's crust is structured in mountain ridges, river, creeks, and gullies.
Reinhold Messner / Mountaineer
Body
Mountain
Rivers
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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 your security, you cannot meet the mountain. Meeting mountains is only possible if you . . . are out there in self-sufﬁciency.
Reinhold Messner / Mountaineer
Mountain
Self
Way
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I became famous for the fact that I would break many, many limits. People said, 'He does all these crazy things.' But oddly it was a crazy thing only because scientists and climbers said, 'Everest and the 8,000-meter peaks without oxygen - impossible. Messner is becoming sick in his head.'
Reinhold Messner / Mountaineer
Famous
Becoming
Break
Crazy Things
Everest
Impossible
Limits
Oxygen
Said
Sick
Does
Became
Climber
Fact
Head
Oddly
Peaks
Scientists
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There are periods on the mountain when you exist between living and dying, sometimes for days. I went through that with my brother on Nanga Parbat. It is very difficult, but it is the most intense experience. And always after such experiences, when I was back among people, I felt I had been reborn.
Reinhold Messner / Mountaineer
Brother
Dying
Intense
Mountain
Periods
Reborn
Experience Always People
Among
Exist
Experiences
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My father blamed me for my brother Gunther's death, for not bringing him home. He died in an avalanche as we descended from the summit of Nanga Parbat, one of the 14 peaks over 8,000m, in 1970. Gunther and I did so much together. It was difficult for my father to understand what it was like up there.
Reinhold Messner / Mountaineer
Brother
Died
Summit
Avalanche
Blamed
Bringing
Descended
Peaks
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Adventure has to do with private, personal experiences. But, the possibilities, there are millions of unclimbed mountains - I have seen in the Eastern part of Tibet, mountains 6,000-6,500 meters high, vertical walls twice as tall as the Eiger... but nobody is going there, because they aren't 8,000-meter peaks.
Reinhold Messner / Mountaineer
Adventure
Eastern
Millions
Personal Experiences
Tibet
Vertical
Twice
Experiences
Peaks
Possibilities
Private
Walls
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I was first to understand it was boring to go with heavy shoes to base camp. When we first tried Dhaulagiri, a very difficult approach at high altitude, we needed very heavy boots. So it was usual to wear such heavy boots to approach all base camps. But I thought this was crazy. We needed lighter shoes for many of the approaches.
Reinhold Messner / Mountaineer
Approach
Boots
Camps
Heavy
Needed
Usual
Altitude
Base
Camp
Wear
Lighter
Tried
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There are three elements of mountaineering - difficulty, danger, and exposure. Difficulty is the technical aspect of it. Danger, it is best to avoid, but some people like to increase danger to a point where their success is dependent only on luck. And exposure, which is what truly defines Alpinism, is what you face in wild nature.
Reinhold Messner / Mountaineer
Aspect
Danger
Dependent
Difficulty
Elements
Exposure
Increase
Luck
Mountaineering
Three
Face
Avoid
Wild
Defines
Point
Some People
Success Is
Technical
Truly
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The best climbers no longer go to the 8000ers, but to the most difficult mountains in the world which are 6000 or 7000-meter-peaks. There they find any kind of playground. But it is a pity that the really good climbers have fewer opportunities to finance their expeditions because so much attention is taken away by the Everest tourists.
Reinhold Messner / Mountaineer
Finance
Attention
Difficult
Everest
Fewer
Pity
Taken
Tourists
Best Good World
Away
Climber
Find
Longer
Much Attention
Opportunities
Playground
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Not only during the ascent, but also during the descent my willpower is dulled. The longer I climb the less important the goal seems to me, the more indifferent I become to myself. My attention has diminished, my memory is weakened. My mental fatigue is now greater than the bodily. It is so pleasant to sit doing nothing - and therefore so dangerous. Death through exhaustion is like death through freezing - a pleasant one.
Reinhold Messner / Mountaineer
Goal
Important
Memories
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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, no anxiety. I have not lost the mastery of my feelings, there are actually no more feelings. I consist only of will. After each few metres this too fizzles out in unending tiredness. Then I think nothing. I let myself fall, just lie there. For an indefinite time I remain completely irresolute. Then I make a few steps again.
Reinhold Messner / Mountaineer
Fall
Lying
Thinking
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