Reinhold Messner about two Munich mountaineering legends: “It was a world sensation”. “Even the north face of the Eiger is almost a spring walk for the best climbers today, I'm exaggerating a bit,” he says.
Toni Schmid is said to say that he doesn't know in the morning whether he will still be alive in the evening. The Schmids made it to the summit and actually ascent and descent in almost four days.