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Danh ngôn của Reinhold Messner (Sứ mệnh: 7)

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.
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.
Each mountain in the Dolomites is like a piece of art.
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.
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.'
Life is about daring to carry out your ideas. And for me, it always comes back to the wilderness, nature, mountains.
I was always at my best when I was learning, when I was curious. When I had yet to see past the next horizon.
In politics, you have to compromise from morning to evening. Democracy is the art of compromise.
I am my own home, and my handkerchief is my flag.
I have a very different fear if I'm all alone in the summit area of Mount Everest and if I know that there is nothing below me, no Sherpa, no tent, no rope.
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.