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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
seems to me, the more indifferent I become to myself. My attention
has diminished, my memory is weakened. My mental fatigue is now
greater than the bodily. It is so pleasant to sit doing nothing - and therefore so dangerous. Death through exhaustion is like death
through freezing - a pleasant one.

Reinhold Messner

In my state of spiritual abstraction, I no longer belong to myself and to my eyesight. I am nothing more than a single narrow gasping lung, floating over the mists and summits.

Reinhold Messner

Reinhold Messner

Reinhold Messner

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Born: September 17, 1944 (age 81)

Bio: Reinhold Messner is an Italian mountaineer, adventurer, explorer, and author from the autonomous Italian province of South Tyrol.

Known for:

The Naked Mountain (2002)
Free Spirit: A Climber's Life (1989)

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