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Italian climber, explorer, and author
- 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.
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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.
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- First solo ascent of Mount Everest and first ascent without supplemental oxygen
- First to climb all 14 eight-thousanders
Mar 26, 2024 · 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.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
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.
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, abandoned...
Aug 18, 2023 · Reinhold Messner is a legend in the mountaineering community, and rightly so – but his achievements haven’t come without a price. The Italian climber has made history on the world’s highest mountain Everest not once, but twice. The mountain’s peak was reached for the first time ever on 29 May 1953 by Edmund Hilary and Tenzing Norgay.
- Vicki Newman
Reinhold Messner (born 1944) is the first people ever to climb all 14 of the world's mountain peaks over 8,000 meters high. He has written over 30 books on his adventures, and his minimalist techniques have revolutionized Himalayan mountain climbing.
Aug 1, 2019 · Reinhold Messner is apt to remain the greatest high-altitude mountaineer of all time simply because he had the good fortune to come along at precisely the right moment in history, when...
