Back to the Mountains

Back to the Mountains

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Memoires

Sports and Martial Arts

Reinhold Messner

Benevento

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144 Pages

MOUNTAINEERING AS A WAY OF LIFE

Tests of courage and solo efforts, exploring human limits, being addicted to the highest peaks.
Reinhold Messner had already written about this fifty years ago, as a young man. Even then, the exploration of the Alps had already been completed, the highest mountains had been conquered. Did this render mountaineering pointless?

Messner’s text is more topical than ever. People still use the solitude of the mountains to escape the noise of the cities. This is where we find the space to rebound that we need urgently—then as now—and that we should preserve, which is more crucial than ever before. Messner’s attitude towards the mountains is reflected even in his earliest work.

Reinhold Messner takes us to the mountains in poems, observations, and notes accompanied by amazing black and white images.

»With its touching poems, observations and notes, the work appeals not only to mountaineers.«
Neue Welt

»Messner’s impressive plea for the preservation of an intact mountain world is flanked by magnificent black-and-white photographs in which photographer Andre Schönherr gives the mountains back their mystery.«
Augsburger Allgemeine

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Reinhold Messner

Reinhold Andreas Messner (German pronunciation: [ˈʁaɪnhɔlt ˈmɛsnɐ]; born 17 September 1944) is an Italian mountaineer, explorer, and author from South Tyrol. He made the first solo ascent of Mount Everest and, along with Peter Habeler, the first ascent of Everest without supplemental oxygen. He was the first climber to ascend all fourteen peaks over 8,000 metres (26,000 ft) above sea level without oxygen. Messner was the first to cross Antarctica and Greenland with neither snowmobiles nor dog sleds.[1] He also crossed the Gobi Desert alone.[2] He is widely considered one of the greatest mountaineers of all time. From 1999 to 2004, Messner served as a member of the European Parliament for north-east Italy, as a member of the Federation of the Greens. Messner has published more than 80 books about his experiences as a climber and explorer. In 2010, he received the 2nd Piolet d'Or Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2018, he received jointly with Krzysztof Wielicki the Princess of Asturias Award in the category of Sports.

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