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Reinhold Messner
1944 • Italian • Explorer
62
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Collected Meditations
Showing 62 quotesA 30-year-old rock climber is an old man. At 40, one is in the middle of his high-altitude power. At 50, a crosser of deserts is at his best age. But at 60, each of us is out of the game.— 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
In the West, the art of rock climbing is growing because it has to do with less risk, good muscles. But the people seeking high goals in high places are in Eastern Europe, and they reach their goals because they are willing to suffer more.— Reinhold Messner
I'm a rock climber, a high-altitude climber, an adventurer, a storyteller through my museums, and a writer of more than 50 books.— Reinhold Messner
In climbing there is no question of right or wrong. Moral right or wrong, that is a religious question, they have nothing to do with anarchical activity, and classical mountaineering is a completely anarchical activity.— Reinhold Messner
I'm a storyteller. I do this for the next generations. They have to know what traditional alpinism is all about.— Reinhold Messner
I have been in the most dangerous of places just in order to survive. An intelligent man would stay in a safe place to survive.— Reinhold Messner
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
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
Climbing is not a competition, and you cannot talk in terms of 'greatest,' it means nothing.— Reinhold Messner
The art of climbing is to go where you go knowing that you could die, but you don't die. That is adventure.— Reinhold Messner
Traditional alpinism is slowly disappearing. It is becoming sport, indoors on small walls with holds where you cannot really fall.— 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 witty, he's profound, he can be incredibly funny, and he's an extremely bright guy.— Reinhold Messner
The true alpinist doesn't want any infrastructure, he wants to go into the wild. And the odds of getting killed there are relatively high. And most people are sensible enough not to want that.— Reinhold Messner
Before kids, I was really going to the limit. Afterwards, I was approaching the limit but then maybe turning around.— Reinhold Messner
The museum at Ortles is dedicated to the world of ice so we wanted visitors to feel like they were inside a glacier.— Reinhold Messner