But I am not looking to any accounts, and I’m not interested at all how many money I have in the bank, what is costing this or that. I’m only trying to realize my ideas.
Recorded Academy of Achievement interview, 22 August 2018 source ↗
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Mountaineer; first to climb all fourteen eight-thousand-metre peaks
Italy · b. 1944
Reinhold Messner is an Italian climber and author from South Tyrol who made the first ascent of Everest without supplementary oxygen, with Peter Habeler, in 1978, and the first solo ascent in 1980. He was the first person to climb all fourteen peaks above eight thousand metres.
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But I am not looking to any accounts, and I’m not interested at all how many money I have in the bank, what is costing this or that. I’m only trying to realize my ideas.
Recorded Academy of Achievement interview, 22 August 2018 source ↗
I was very well organized in my things. I am an exceptional worker, not only a risk taker. And I was not in competition with anybody. Many people died because they were in competition.
Recorded Academy of Achievement interview, 22 August 2018 source ↗
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