Reinhold messner biography template
Reinhold messner biography template
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Reinhold Messner, who was born in South Tyrol in , climbed his first 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 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 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 crosse