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Reinhold Andreas Messner ( German: [ˈʁaɪnhɔlt ˈmɛsnɐ]; born 17 September 1944) is an Italian climber, 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.
Reinhold Messner (born September 17, 1944, Bressanone [Brixon], Italy) is a mountain climber and polar trekker who was renowned for his pioneering and difficult ascents of the world’s highest peaks.
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Aug 30, 2020 · Reinhold Messner: the man who left his life on the mountain. Harried by the brother he lost in the Himalayas and forsworn by the ‘fascist’ former climbing partners who, in turn,...
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Dec 1, 2021 · On May 8, 1978, Reinhold Messner and his Tyrolean countryman Peter Habeler were the first ever to reach the top of Earth’s highest mountain — Mount Everest, 8,848 meters (29,029 feet) above sea level — without supplemental oxygen; Messner and Habeler are greeted by their wives at Munich-Riem Airport.
Feb 13, 2016 · For a man who’s been called the greatest mountaineer of all time, Reinhold Messner is surprisingly reserved and humble as he looks back on his 70 years on the planet. He’s explored and survived some of the most challenging and unforgiving terrain on Earth.
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Aug 18, 2023 · Reinhold Messner (Italy) was the first ever person to climb Mount Everest alone, and it was so tough he almost gave up.
Aug 1, 2019 · Reinhold Messner holds a decades-long list of achievements on the world's toughest mountains and was the first climber to summit all 14 of the planet's 8,000-meter peaks.
