Reinhold messner - wikipedia
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Reinhold Messner
Italian mountaineer, adventurer and explorer (born 1944)
Messner in 2024 | |
| Nationality | Italian |
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| Born | (1944-09-17) 17 September 1944 (age 80) Brixen (Bressanone), South Tyrol, Italy |
| Website | Official website |
| Known for | First to climb all 14 eight-thousanders, first to climb all 14 eight-thousanders without supplemental oxygen, and first to climb Mount Everest without supplemental oxygen |
| First ascents | |
| Major ascents | First solo ascent of Mount Everest and first ascent without supplemental oxygen |
Reinhold Andreas Messner (German:[ˈʁaɪnhɔltˈmɛsnɐ]; born 17 September 1944) is an Italian climber, explorer, and author from the German-speaking province of 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 person to climb all 14 eight-thousanders, doing so without supplementary oxygen. Messner was the first to cross Antarctica and Greenland with neither snowmobiles nor dog sleds[1] and also crossed the
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CURRICULUM VITAE
Reinhold Messner, who was born in South Tyrol in 1944, climbed his first 3000 metre peak with his father when he was only 5 years old. After studying engineering he worked for a short time as a secondary school teacher before devoting himself entirely to mountaineering – and became an explorer of limits.
Since 1969 Reinhold Messner has made more than a hundred journeys to the world’s mountains and deserts. He has achieved numerous first ascents, climbed all fourteen 8000 m peaks and the Seven Summits, traversed the Antarctic, the Gobi and Taklamakan deserts and crossed Greenland diagonally. He has also written four dozen books.
In contrast to modern adventurers, Reinhold Messner is less concerned with records than with being exposed to natural landscapes in the raw and making his way with a minimum of equipment. He followed Albert Frederick Mummery’s dictum “by fair means” on Nanga Parbat and Fridtjof Nansen’s “call of the North” to the ice packs of the Arctic and crossed the Antarctic via the South Pole on the basis of an idea suggested by Shackleto
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Reinhold Messner´s 80th birthday
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Mountains, museums and the meaning of life
He is the most famous and successful living mountaineer in the world. He is also an author, adventurer, philosopher, museum founder and masterful marketer of himself: Reinhold Messner. The South Tyrolean celebrates his 80th birthday on 17 September 2024.
A small selection of Messner's records: He was the first person to climb an eight-thousander solo (Nanga Parbat, 1978). Together with Peter Habeler, he climbed Mount Everest in the same year without additional oxygen from a bottle. Two years later, he climbed it again alone, again without oxygen and as the first person to do so. And he was the first person to conquer all eight-thousanders, the fourteen highest mountains on earth.
Messner scaled all eight-thousanders in the so-called "Alpine style", i.e. without additional oxygen from a bottle, without a large team of porters and helpers, without prepared intermediate camps, ropes, pitons, etc. This purism is Messner's trademark. His maxim was to consistently do without bolts, oxygen masks
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