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	Reinhold Messner - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Reinhold Messner (September 17, 1944, Villnöss-Funes, South Tyrol, Italy) is often cited [1]as the greatest mountain climber of all time, noted for making the first (and likely only) solo ascent of Mount Everest without supplementary oxygen and for being the first climber to ascend all fourteen "eight-thousanders" (peaks over 8,000 metres above sea level).
		Reinhold lost seven of his toes which had become badly frostbitten during the climb.
		Their drummer Darren Jessee unwittingly used Reinhold Messner's name on a fake ID as a teenager.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Reinhold_Messner (546 words)

	Solda all' Ortles - Reinhold Messner
		The initiative to immortalize Messner in the Solda history was spontaneous born and, like a swift river, had overcome everyone: cultural association, firemen, ski-school, the alpine assistance, the white cross, the guides, the touristic agency, the hotels keepers, the traders and the cable-way societies.
		At the end Messner has convinced the organizers of the cerimonial to cancel the dine which they had alredy put on the balance for devolving 3000 Euro (that would have been spent for the banquet) for the flood's victims of Dresda.
		Restaurat's name synthetizes two symbols which are dear to Messner: the acclimatation at Solda of a herd of Yak and the mistery of the man of the mountains that none has solved.
	www.solda2000.com /messnen.htm (811 words)

	Everyone Has An Everest - Bios (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Reinhold Messner made his first climb to the top of Mount Everest in 1978 with Austrian Peter Habeler.
		Messner returned to the mountain in 1980 and made the first Many people were skeptical of Messner\'s first summit without bottled oxygen, so he decided to summit again, this time alone.
		Reinhold Messner, a record holder on many levels, was the first man to ever climb all 14 of Earth's The fourteen tallest peaks, all in the Himalayas: 1.
	www.steponline.com /everest/reinhold_messner.asp (493 words)

	The Observer \| Sport \| OSM: Interview with moutaineer Reinhold Messner
		Messner mentions the tragedies of the spring climbing season of 1996, when 12 people, among them commercial clients who had paid more than $50,000 (£28,000) for a place on a team, died on Everest.
		Messner vowed that he would find his brother's body, and prove that he had died in an avalanche and that there was nothing more he could have done to save him.
		In Naked Mountain, Messner claimed that there had been disharmony in the expedition and that Herrligkoffer had made a fatal blunder by sending up the wrong-coloured flare indicating that the weather report was good, rather than bad, which encouraged him to go for the summit.
	observer.guardian.co.uk /osm/story/0,6903,1315445,00.html (3968 words)

	NOVA Online \| Everest \| First Without Oxygen
		Messner and Habeler had agreed on carrying two oxygen cylinders to Camp IV, in case of an emergency, and had also made a pact to turn back if either person lost his coordination or speech.
		Messner described feeling as though he were going to "burst apart." As they climbed higher, they fell to their knees and even lay down in an effort to recover their breath.
		Messner testified into his tape recorder that, "breathing becomes such a serious business we scarcely have strength to go on." He described feeling like his mind was dead—and that it was only his soul that compelled him to crawl forward.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/nova/everest/history/firstwoo2.html (1159 words)

	Camp4: The controversy surrounding Reinhold Messner (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Gunther knew Reinhold would make the summit in the clear weather and grew frustrated that he wouldn't share the summit with his older brother, according to a climber who was with Gunther when he set out after his brother.
		Reinhold chose the other route because that was his path to fame, charges von Kienlin, a baron who became close to Reinhold during the trip.
		Reinhold had confided all of this to him while recuperating after the team had reunited, von Kienlin says, but Reinhold later concocted his story, at von Kienlin's suggestion, to protect his budding career.
	www.camp4.com /news/index.php?newsid=519 (1607 words)

	Reinhold Messner's brother found on Nanga Parbat?
		Contrary to modern adventure performers, Reinhold Messner never went after records; instead, he is interested in being exposed to nature in landscapes hardly touched by man, and in travelling with a minimum of equipment.
		On Everest Reinhold Messner and Peter Habeler were the first to summit without the use of bottled oxygen.
		Reinhold Messner was the first, and many will argue the only, to ever solo Everest on Aug 20, 1980 via the North Col/North Face.
	www.everestnews.com /stories2005/messneru08152005.htm (467 words)

	The Unauthorized Biography of Reinhold Messner - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Unauthorized Biography of Reinhold Messner is the third album by Ben Folds Five, released in 1999 (see 1999 in music).
		The title of the album is said to refer to a name that Darren Jessee used on fake IDs as a teenager.
		The band was unaware of the existence of a real Reinhold Messner, a famous mountain climber, until work on the album had already progressed.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Unauthorized_Biography_of_Reinhold_Messner (137 words)

	Nanga Parbat 1970. Reinhold Messner told the truth - News, alpinism, climbing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Perhaps this is the true measure of the depth of the wound that this mountain, and the decades that followed, inferred on Reinhold Messner.
		Reinhold Messner expedition to the Nanga Parbat Diamir Face aiming to climb new route.
		Reinhold Messner recounts the events that led to the death of his brother in 1970.
	www.planetmountain.com /English/home.html?-database=newseng&-layout=scheda&-response=News/Detail1.html&-recordID=33454&-search (662 words)

	30-year-old mystery roils climbing world (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Messner, in the kitchen of the restored 13th-century castle where he lives, perched on a 3,000-foot cliff in the Tyrolean Alps.
		Messner is now preparing to return to Nanga Parbat to scour the avalanche field on the western side of the mountain for his brother's remains -- to prove that he did not abandon Gunther at the top.
		Messner said that his brother's death "was truly a mistake of the other climbers' not going in the Diamir valley" to look for them.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2003/12/10/financial0911EST0039.DTL&type=printable (1702 words)

	Messner to Produce His Brother's Boot @ National Geographic Adventure Magazine
		Found with Günther's remains and near to where a fibula was recovered in 2000, Messner said the boot was further proof that he had not left his brother to die near the summit, as two members of the 1970 expedition claimed in their 2003 memoirs.
		Reinhold began to worry that his brother was too exhausted to manage the descent of the difficult Rupal route; his long dash to catch up with Reinhold had worn him out.
		Messner answered that he believed the bone could belong to one of only three people—Günther, the Pakistani from 1982, or Alfred Mummery, the greatest climber of his day, who had vanished on the first attempt on the Diamir Face in 1895.
	www.nationalgeographic.com /adventure/0509/whats_new/reinhold_messer.html (7587 words)

	Messner Mystery Solved? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Reinhold Messner has identified a body found near the base of the Diamir face of Nanga Parbat in Pakistan as that of his brother, Günther, based on the boots and jacket with the body.
		Teammates of Messner’s from the expedition accused him of abandoning his brother high on the mountain, in a bid for the glory of making the traverse.
		Messner, who blames such claims in part on jealously for an affair he had with the wife of one of his accusers, has visited Nanga Parbat several times to search for his brother’s remains.
	www.climbing.com /news/messnermystery (276 words)

	BBC NEWS \| South Asia \| Climber 'did not abandon brother'
		Italian Reinhold Messner said bones, a shoe and clothing found on 17 July prove his younger brother Gunther died on the western side of Nanga Parbat.
		Mr Messner, 60, told a press conference in Islamabad that he and Gunther had made the first ascent of the Rupal Wall in 1970 and that his brother went missing in bad weather on the descent on the Diamer side.
		Reinhold Messner was the first mountaineer to climb the world's 14 8,000-metre-plus peaks.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/south_asia/4213122.stm (374 words)

	Reinhold Messner's Yeti Book
		The unfortunate part of Messner's encounter was that he was alone in a region with no roads and no people around, and it was nightfall.
		Messner says he saw the creature later and even took some photos, but that film was damaged during processing.
		Messner (who, although ethnically Austrian, is from and lives in South Tyrol and therefore has the Italian nationality) sees himself not only as a mountaineer but also as a Thinker, a Philosopher and an authority on all that concerns the Himalayas.
	www.bigfootencounters.com /reviews/quest.htm (898 words)

	Not Your Average Bear
		While Messner makes no mention of how the chemo-yeti connection escaped previous zoologists and explorers, his own meandering path to this eureka moment began innocently enough.
		Yet Messner is made of steelier stuff; he was the first to climb Mount Everest alone -- without bottled oxygen.
		Messner discounts the theory that the yeti is an archetypal image concocted by the collective unconscious.
	partners.nytimes.com /books/00/06/11/reviews/000611.11jarvist.html (693 words)

	Reinhold Messner's brother found on Nanga Parbat Update with pictures of the Boot
		Messner held his press conference in Pakistan where he described the finding of his brother's remains on Nanga Parbat.
		Reinhold Messner 1970 climbed Nanga Parbat (8125m) with his younger brother Gunther, summitting via the Rupal Face, but then traversing the mountain and descending via the Diamir Flank.
		Messner's climbing partners, Max von Kienlin and Hans Saler doubted Reinhold's version of his brothers death in books they published.
	www.everestnews.com /stories2005/messneru08162005.htm (862 words)

	Amazon.com: Reinhold Messner, Free Spirit: A Climber's Life: Books: Reinhold Messner (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Messner narrates his achievements in a matter of fact manner leaving the reader to fill in the enormity of his spirit.
		Messner for his unbridled enthusiam for mountain climbing and also for his restraint in narrating the tales.
		Reinhold Messner may be the Michael Jordan of mountaineering, but his writing style is flat footed.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0898865735?v=glance (1128 words)

	Reinhold Messner Biography / Biography of Reinhold Messner Biography
		Reinhold Messner (born 1944) is the first people ever to climb all 14 of the world's mountain peaks over 8,000 meters high.
		Internationally known mountain climber Reinhold Messner was born in the Tyrolean Alps in 1944, the second child in a family of eight brothers and one sister.
		For Messner these early climbs were only the beginning of an incredible achieve.....
	www.bookrags.com /biography-reinhold-messner (233 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| The Guardian \| At last a great mountaineer can banish the anguish that has plagued his career
		One of nine children, Messner's father was an enthusiastic Nazi, who supported the agreement between Hitler and Mussolini whereby Tyroleans could choose to remain Italian or move to a Greater Germany.
		Reinhold, who rejected his father's Nazi views, was born in 1944, Günther, top right, was two years younger, but their father, who saw climbing as a pastime, became alarmed at their intensity.
		Their success was enough to earn Reinhold a place on an expedition to Nanga Parbat, a mountain that between the wars had become a deadly obsession for German and Austrian mountaineers.
	www.guardian.co.uk /international/story/0,3604,1552234,00.html (571 words)

	The Grizzly Truth About the Yeti: Stalking the Abominable Snow-Bear (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Reinhold Messner, a native of the Alpine region of South Tyrol, is a legendary figure in the world of mountain climbing.
		Messner has written a large number of books on his climbing experiences, and now he is set to release his first book specifically devoted to his quest for the snow creature, entitled Yeti, Legend and Reality.
		Messner is confident that the Tibetan bear fits with both the traditional stories and the modern sightings by western explorers.
	www.parascope.com /en/articles/yetiBear.htm (777 words)

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		Reinhold Messner did it not as a conquest in the classic, geographical sense.
		On the long match across the ice continent he sensed that 'Heaven' and 'Hell' are not human inventions but rather that they are inseparable halves in the nature of the world, which man should not seek to separate from one another.
		Reinhold Messner has been called the most important living adventurer.
	www.oneworldmagazine.org /focus/southpole/author.htm (381 words)

	Reinhold Messner to Speak at Banff Mountain Summit
		Messner will be part of the Summit’s Sunday, October 27 opening event: Extreme Landscape: A Celebration in Word and Image.
		Reinhold Messner has been climbing since he was five years old.
		By the age of twenty, Messner had climbed most of the hardest routes in the Dolomites and the Western Alps and had begun to formulate his philosophy of clean climbing.
	www.banffcentre.ca /mountainculture/media/2002/summitmessner.htm (473 words)

	Reinhold Messner -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		In 1978 he and Austrian Peter Habeler were the first to climb Mount Everest (29,035 feet [8,850 metres]), the highest mountain in the world, without the use of contained oxygen for breathing, and two years later he completed the first solo ascent of...
		Reinhold Messner arrived at Rongbuk during the monsoon in July 1980.
		In 1978 that belief was shattered by the Italian (Tyrolean) climber Reinhold Messner and his Austrian climbing partner Peter Habeler.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9052253 (638 words)

	DNA test to clear controversy over climber’s death -DAWN - National; September 5, 2005
		Reinhold Messner told a press conference here on Sunday that he was certain the remains were those of his brother Gunther Messner who had disappeared on June 29, 1970 while descending the ‘killer mountain’ in bad weather.
		Reinhold described Gunther’s disappearance in a reported avalanche, his frantic search for him and his own escape through the Diamer Valley as a defining experience in his book The Naked Mountain, which sparked a firestorm in Europe.
		In books written as direct rebuttals to The Naked Mountain, two members of the expedition claimed that Messner’s story is a whitewash of the truth that he abandoned his brother on the peak.
	www.dawn.com /2005/09/05/nat8.htm (523 words)

	Amazon.ca: Naked Mountain: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Reinhold Messner became a force to be reckoned with in the world of climbing in the '60s.
		It's easy to point out climbers that have upped the ante after Reinhold passed his prime, but any realistic overview of the history of big, bold climbs would point to Reinhold as being a prime force in shaping the standards of today in the Himalaya and the other major ranges.
		This all ties in nicely with Messner's expedition chronicle as the Buhl and Messner expeditions were both led by Dr. Karl Herrligkoffer, who just so happens to have been the half brother of Willy Merkl after whom many of the features of Nanga Parbat are named.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/1861266332 (692 words)

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