В последнее время меня очень вдохновляет Райнхольд Месснер. Я здесь не буду подробно о том, какой он расчудесный дядька. Вот вам небольшая, но впечатляющая подборочка фотографий от National Geographic и ниже две отличные цитаты оттуда.
"If some people are telling you they had their climax on Mount Everest, they lied," Messner said. "It is an awful place." Then why risk everything to get there? "Without the possibility of death," he said, "adventure is not possible."
"So when I start to climb, I am so concentrated that there is nothing else existing," says Messner, shown on Lhotse in 1975. "In this concentration, everything seems quite logical. The danger is gone. But the concentration is absolute."