Reinhold Messner

Reinhold Messner is an Italian mountaineer and explorer from South Tyrol "whose astonishing feats on Everest and on peaks throughout the world have earned him the status of the greatest climber in history." He is renowned for making the first solo ascent of Mount Everest without supplemental oxygen and for being the first climber to ascend all fourteen "eight-thousanders" (peaks over 8,000 metres (26,000 ft) above sea level). He is the author of ...Read More

Reinhold Messner is an Italian mountaineer and explorer from South Tyrol "whose astonishin...Read More