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The only possibility to have a knowledge of both the Earth's nature and our own internal nature is through traditional climbing when you go on your own, far from safety, and encounter the unknown.
— Reinhold Messner
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Reinhold Messner
explorer, politician, writer, mountaineer, film director
1944
Reinhold Andreas Messner is an Italian climber, explorer, and author from the German-speaking province of South Tyrol. He made the first solo ascent of Mount Everest and, along with Peter Habeler, the first ascent of Everest without supplementary oxygen. He was the first person to climb all 14 eight-thousanders, doing so without supplementary oxygen. Messner was the first to cross Antarctica and Greenland with neither snowmobiles nor dog sleds and also crossed the Gobi Desert alone. He is widely considered to be the greatest mountaineer of all time.
All Quotes by Reinhold Messner
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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
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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
— Reinhold Messner
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A 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
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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
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By climbing mountains we were not learning how big we were. We were finding out how breakable, how weak and how full of fear we are.
— Reinhold Messner
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By climbing mountains we were not learning how big we were. We were finding out how breakable, how weak and how full of fear we are.
— Reinhold Messner
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Each mountain in the Dolomites is like a piece of art.
— Reinhold Messner