Good mini-documentary on Reinhold Messner, the greatest mountain climber ever. As a bonus, for any of you who wonder why people with average talent run 120 miles a week to run average times, Messner will explain it to you better than anyone here ever has.
I still think that, for its time, Messner's solo of Everest without oxygen was the sickest feat ever.
if you've ever been above 25k, you'll agree with the above poster. have you a link to the documentary?
link would be sweet along with at what point does he talk about the 120miles a week and average times and what not?
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Here's the link...sorry I didn't think of this when I first posted.
common wrote:
Good mini-documentary on Reinhold Messner, the greatest mountain climber ever. As a bonus, for any of you who wonder why people with average talent run 120 miles a week to run average times, Messner will explain it to you better than anyone here ever has.
I watched the whole thing in hopes of hearing him talk about running 120 miles a week. It never happened. He never metioned running.
You trolled me, and now I have alot of knowledge about Messner, and rock climbing.
Jesus. Are you kidding me? It's a metaphor, kid. Messner explained why anyone does anything for themselves. Not for the time, not for the money, not for the fame, but for the spirit. If you can't appreciate that in the context of your 140 mile weeks, I feel sorry for you.
How is that going, by the way?
common wrote:
Jesus. Are you kidding me? It's a metaphor, kid. Messner explained why anyone does anything for themselves. Not for the time, not for the money, not for the fame, but for the spirit. If you can't appreciate that in the context of your 140 mile weeks, I feel sorry for you.
How is that going, by the way?
Yea. I was telling myself "There's like 5 minutes left in this video, I don't think the guy was being literal." ha. But I understand what you were saying. And about the 140, so far it's going good. Not shooting straight to 140 till next week. This week will be ~110 or so after last week was a taper/race end of season week of 57 miles. Now I have a final to go take!