Reinhold Messner Quotes

I'm a huge camper, and love hiking and mountain biking.

I climb mountains.

In Canada, I climbed some mountains with the Alpine Club of Canada, which taught me a lot about stamina.

I love hillwalking and have been doing a lot of climbing.

I'm really into rock climbing and hiking and stuff.

I go to the wild mountains where I am responsible for myself. Step by step I am making sure that I don't die.

I have my mountain man moments like hiking in the woods.

If you want to train for big mountain endeavors, spend time in big mountains.

There are so many fun places to hike.

Just about every weekend when I was growing up, we would throw rods and rifles and tents and shovels and pickaxes into the back of the truck and then head off to the side of a mountain or the bottom of a canyon. Hiking, fishing, hunting, rock-hounding: this is how my parents passed the time.

I never camped as a kid, but I really got into camping and sleeping outdoors. I've also done some amazing river floats in New Mexico and Idaho. It's peaceful and awesome.

I have lots of other mountains that I would like to climb. I have no dream of Everest, but there are some, like Mount Fuji, I'd like to do.

I did a lot of hiking and I loved it.

The Sherpas play a very important role in most mountaineering expeditions, and in fact many of them lead along the ridges and up to the summit.

I've been doing a lot of hiking, which I love.

I'm a camper. I love being out in the wilderness.

This is one of my definitions of mountaineering: to go where others do not.

I like being out there. I've done Snowdon, walked a bit of the Cleveland Way, did some of the Coast to Coast.

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.

I love camping, everything about it - tents, the camping stove, sleeping bags. I'm obsessed with technology, be it synthesizers and speakers or tents and Gore-Tex.

It takes a lot of resources to climb Everest, and a lot of other people. But you should go do it.

I learned a lot from more experienced mountaineers, such as Peter Habeler, but by the time I was about 21 I reckoned I had learned all that I needed to make me technically self-sufficient anywhere.

When I'm in Kathmandu, I go out into the hills and go trekking.

I'm certainly no hardcore backpacker, but I do enjoy being out in the woods for a few hours.

I was always with my dad and my brother. I know that if you can't keep up, you get left behind. So you learn to pull your weight. You learn to not be the one that's causing the problems, whether we're camping, where I'd better be the one to help put up the tent.