Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final. – Rainer Maria Rilke, The Book of Hours.

Only secrets can be conquered'- most of all the secrets that lie within ourselves.

A failed attempt on a virgin face of an eight thousander gives me much more than the successful ascent of a known route.

... I only know that when physical and emotional reserves remain unchallenged, this feeds the spiritual cancer of a life unfulfilled.-Reinhold Messner

It is said that a man is rejuvenated every seven years- that all his cells are replaced. I wonder, does that also apply to his spirit?- Reinhold Messner

Inner harmony is the prerequisite for any climber who seeks to push the frontiers; without it he should give up extreme mountaineering.-Reinhold Messner

... one of the most decisive factors enduring a borderline situation is the WILL TO SURVIVE.-Reinhold Messner

What counts are merely the experiences one gains along the way.-Reinhold Messner

There is no single, correct objective in mountaineering; there are only possibilities. One of them leads beyond the impossible.- Reinhold Messner

As climbers thronged the scope of Everest, the Rupal Face retained its solitude, remaining a formidable oabjective.