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The art of climbing is the art of survival. The best climber is the man or woman going in the most crazy places but surviving.
Quote by -Reinhold Messner
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.
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First, I am afraid to die and I love to live. But an adventure is only an adventure when there is the threat of dying.
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The mountains are dangerous. Only an unintelligent person will say they are not dangerous.
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An account of an expedition is not a novel. Therefore an authentic account can never be given, let alone written down by someone who was not present.
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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.
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In mountaineering, there is not only the activity, but the philosophy behind it. Some say a moral, but I am against that because all morality is dangerous.
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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.
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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.
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At 30 I was not quiet enough inside myself. At 40 I was not rich enough. At 50 I was still hoping to change the world.
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All the Yeti footprints are all the same bear. The Yeti isn't a fantastic figure. The Yeti is reality.
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The art of climbing is to go where you go knowing that you could die, but you don't die. That is adventure.
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When I held in my hands the remains of Gunther, I had a strong feeling, like a phantom pain of an amputee.
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Gunther and I always shared the work. Each of us carried his own sleeping bag and tent, and porters carried the rest, until the highest camp, when we were on our own. Nobody helped us up there.
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On your own, relying on yourself, you will never feel you are stronger than the mountain, and your respect for the peak grows.
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I am not so proud to climb all the 8,000-meter peaks, but I was proud to climb Nanga Parbat solo. That was the most elegant thing I did.
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Life is about daring to carry out your ideas. And for me, it always comes back to the wilderness, nature, mountains.
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A good expedition doesn't need a leader at all. You are deciding day by day, discussing it in a democratic way.
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I am not made for lonely expeditions. In the sixties, I climbed during the day so I wouldn't have to be alone. I finally learned to stay up for weeks in the high altitude all by my own without being afraid.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Climbing is all about freedom, the freedom to go beyond all the rules and take a chance, to experience something new, to gain insight into human nature.
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I like Nietzsche. I quote him in many of my books. He was born 100 years before me.
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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.
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This is one of my definitions of mountaineering: to go where others do not.
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I left many different mountains but always the gods gave me a chance to go back. I was always going with a quiet foot.
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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.
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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.
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I go to the wild mountains where I am responsible for myself. Step by step I am making sure that I don't die.
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William Blake said 200 years ago that when man and mountains meet, something big is happening. I'm searching for the 'big.'
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I go to the mountains for an adventure and each time I pray I will get up and down again.
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Traditional alpinism is to go where the others are not going and to be self-reliant.
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