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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.Collection: Reinhold
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.Collection: Reinhold
Fame is very heavy. When there are large crowds, I'm unable to handle it.Collection: Reinhold
I'm a rock climber, a high-altitude climber, an adventurer, a storyteller through my museums, and a writer of more than 50 books.Collection: Reinhold
I had no ghost writers for the books - I wrote every line myself.Collection: Reinhold
Before kids, I was really going to the limit. Afterwards, I was approaching the limit but then maybe turning around.Collection: Reinhold
My brother is in me. When we remember somebody else, in a certain way they are still alive. I see my brother - he is still young - looking to the Dolomites where we did our ascents. I remember those moments, so he is still together with me.Collection: Reinhold
I have the feeling that behind a certain dimension we cannot anymore see, understand, feel, smell, hear - nothing. What people are calling God I am not defining, but I am a 'possibilitiest.'Collection: Reinhold
Traditional alpinism is slowly disappearing. It is becoming sport, indoors on small walls with holds where you cannot really fall.Collection: Reinhold
Alpinism means you go by yourself with your own responsibility, knowing that you could die. But Everest now is more like ski tourism: preparing the piste, helping people go up, setting oxygen bottles near the summit.Collection: Reinhold
I am not so famous. I'm known in a few countries like Italy, Austria, Germany, Switzerland and around the Alps. Some climbers in Beijing know my name, and some in America, but I am not really famous. It's very relative, my fame.Collection: Reinhold
There is no joy involved in climbing mountains, there is simply the challenge, the self-invented challenge, the play.Collection: Reinhold
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.Collection: Reinhold
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.Collection: Reinhold
A good expedition doesn't need a leader at all. You are deciding day by day, discussing it in a democratic way.Collection: Reinhold
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.Collection: Reinhold
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.Collection: Reinhold
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.Collection: Reinhold
I am a South Tyrolean. I identify with this land.Collection: Reinhold
I am responsible for my brother's death. I feel the guilt of having survived. People say, 'You should be happy. You survived.' But I have this feeling that it is not right that I am alive.Collection: Reinhold
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.Collection: Reinhold
When I was a small child, I began on small mountains. Now, as I am getting older, the small peaks are getting bigger. If I am lucky, some day I will end on a small peak.Collection: Reinhold
I go to the mountains for an adventure and each time I pray I will get up and down again.Collection: Reinhold
I go to the wild mountains where I am responsible for myself. Step by step I am making sure that I don't die.Collection: Reinhold
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.Collection: Reinhold
The Slovenians are the very best climbers in the world.Collection: Reinhold
On Mount Everest it feels as if you are in the womb, but on K2 you are always out on the edge.Collection: Reinhold
When I held in my hands the remains of Gunther, I had a strong feeling, like a phantom pain of an amputee.Collection: Reinhold
I am not an anarchist, but I am anarchistical.Collection: Reinhold
I started the whole 'Into Thin Air' thing - nothing I'm proud of.Collection: Reinhold
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.Collection: Reinhold
Climbing has so much more culture than all other activities put together. There is no culture in tennis, just a few names, a few dates. No big culture in soccer. But we have thousands of books, great philosophers, thinkers, painters.Collection: Reinhold
I want to look into the dark spaces in people's souls. At what happens to us when we go to the mountains.Collection: Reinhold
For years I was a rock climber and nothing else. I went to school, yes, and university, yes, but in my heart I was a rock climber.Collection: Reinhold
This is one of my definitions of mountaineering: to go where others do not.Collection: Reinhold
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.Collection: Reinhold
On your own, relying on yourself, you will never feel you are stronger than the mountain, and your respect for the peak grows.Collection: Reinhold
I left many different mountains but always the gods gave me a chance to go back. I was always going with a quiet foot.Collection: Reinhold
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.Collection: Reinhold