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Reinhold Messner - life of an actual hero

Reinhold Messner was born in 1944. He´s one of the most popular mountaineers on earth having reached the peak of all 14 mountains in the Himalayas over eight thousand meters high. He´s made over a hundred expeditions in various mountain ranges and deserts of our planet and has written 35 books about them. He has also stood on the North as well as on the South Pole, never wanting to break records like many adventurers these days.
Reinhold was born in the village called St.Peter located in the Vilnösser Tal valley – today´s north of Italy. He started climbing for two reasons: His father was a climber, and there was no football pitch or swimming pool to give out energy in the valley. The child conquered his first wall at the age of five, at that time with his father´s help, ´of course. But he soon beat him and took the sport as his. Later, when he was about thirteen, his brother – Günther and he became an inseparable pair in the heights. They explored the other parts of the Alps learning pretty quickly by watching already experienced guys and then did the same.
Shortly afterwards, the South-Tyrolean lost his beloved brother in a successful attempt to ascend Nanga Parbat. This somehow affected the rest of his life and he realized, he´d continue alone. His most remarkable act was definitely when he became the first human being to reach the top of Mount Everest without oxygen completely on his own in 1980. Talking of results in a mathematical sort of way, he also walked a two-thousand-kilometer-long track in Greenland and made an as long journey through the Gobi desert.
Nowadays, he´s establishing many so called mountain museums throughout Europe and contributing to European politics in his own straight manner. All in all, his books and activities in general will alway impress me like no one ever before.

Learn more about him e.g. at Nationalgeographic