Reinhold Messner
Reinhold Messner
Reinhold Messneris an Italian mountaineer, adventurer, explorer, and author from the autonomous Italian province of South Tyrol...
ProfessionMountain Climber
Date of Birth17 September 1944
attract guarantee regions security tourists
We attract tourists to these regions where we can't guarantee their security,
chance depend mountains safety turning
Over time, our only chance at safety will depend on not turning the mountains into Disneyland.
expedition leather nobody today using
Today nobody (is) using leather shoes. Only in this expedition we used this shoe.
I do this for myself because I am my own fatherland, and my handkerchief is my flag.
rivers mountain body
...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.
spiritual floating states
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 lung, floating over the mists and summits.
lying fall thinking
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.
climbing impossible murder
Bolts are the murder of the impossible.
nature travel tired
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 and sat there, oblivious to everything....
climbing mountain want
I want to solve a climbing problem in the mountains, not in the sporting goods store.
self mountain way
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.
climbing doe increase
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 in the slightest.
adventure possibility
Without the possibility of death, adventure is not possible.
dies
I didn’t go up there to die. I went up there to live.