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Oct 6, 2022 · Just five years old, Reinhold climbed the Sass Rigais, a semi-technical peak close to his home. Later, as a teen, he climbed most often with Günther, two years his junior. Their equipment and sustenance were simple—a few pitons, a rope, a loaf of bread, and a hunk of cheese.
Oct 29, 2018 · He was five years old when he went on his first climb. Reinhold’s parents took him and his brother Helmut up to Sass Rigais, one of the nearby mountains, for a few days of camping and climbing.
Reinhold Andreas Messner (German: [ˈʁaɪnhɔlt ˈmɛsnɐ]; 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
Here Messner reveals the forces and events that have shaped him as an individual and as a climber--including his brother's tragic death on Nanga Parbat in 1970.Messner takes us from the days of his...
Aug 18, 2023 · Reinhold’s journeys in the mountains began at a very young age, with him reaching his first summit when he was just five years old. He went on mountaineering expeditions with his father, who taught him how to survive at high altitudes.
In 1878 the Sass Rigais was climbed for the first time across the west side by Giorgio and Giovanni Bernard, Bruno Wagner and Eduard Niglutsch. In 1890 the first ascent in winter succeeded by Johann Santner who also gave name to the Punta Santner in the Sciliar Massif.
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Simon Messner, Martin Sieberer. This climb begins not now, in 2020, but fifty years ago when Reinhold Messner traced a thin line onto a black and white photograph of the west face of Sass Rigais.
