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• I am not a climber, I am an adventurer." -- Reinhold Messne
• I am no longer a snow climber. I am a snow walker." -- Reinhold Messne
• Even with all our technology there is no way to make an 8000m peak safe.
  You must go thinking you will not come back. -- Reinhold Messne...
• I have never done any 4000ers in Colorado. Maybe when I am 60 I will come back and do them.
  -- Reinhold Messne...
• Nobody talks about my failures anymore, just my successes.
  In my 30 expeditions to 8000ers 12 times I failed....
• The good die young -- because they see it's no use living if you've got to be good.