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Reinhold Messner
Reinhold Andreas Messner 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 supplementary oxygen. He was the first person to climb all 14 eight-thousanders, doing so without supplementary oxygen. Messner was the first to cross Antarctica and G…
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culture · Italian mountaineer, adventurer and explorer (born 1944) · explorer · politician · writer · mountaineer · film director · non-fiction writer · athlete · cinematographer · also Reinhold Messner, Messner
Born 17 September 1944 · Q189307
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2026· 9 entries
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PlanetMountain.com: Reinhold Messner Everest 1980, Reinhold Messner on the summit of Everest on 20 August 1980. At the age of 35, the South Tyrolean mountaineer became the first person in the world to climb the highest mountain on Earth alone and without supplementary o
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bluewin.ch: Inheritance Dispute Continues to Simmer: Reinhold Messner's Daughter Can No Longer Reach Her Father
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PlanetMountain.com: Alessandro Filippini with Reinhold Messner, during the presentation of a winter expedition by Simone Moro and Denis Urubko to Nanga Parbat.
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Bluewin: Reinhold Messner's daughter on the loss of contact: "I can't reach him anymore"
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Public attention spiked: 2,842 Wikipedia readers in one day, 3.2× the usual 888, with 0 article edits.
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Public attention spiked: 3,607 Wikipedia readers in one day, 4.1× the usual 888, with 2 article edits. Editors noted: Reverted edits by ~2026-43176-19 (talk): not adhering to neutral point of view (HG) (3.4.14)
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Public attention spiked: 8,449 Wikipedia readers in one day, 9.5× the usual 888, with 0 article edits.
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2025· 1 entry
Bluewin: Reinhold Messner draws a line at the age of 80 - and starts all over again
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2024· 1 entry
Awarded Bambi Award (2024).
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2023· 4 entries
Jurgalski reversed key features of his findings, stating that true summit of some of the peaks is indeterminable and therefore a “summit zone” of up to ~200 meters is a more appropriate approximation of wherein the true
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Yahoo! Sports: Guinness Has Revoked Reinhold Messner’s 8,000er Record. Climbers Protest.
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The Independent: Mountain man: the miraculous life of Reinhold Messner, the world’s most controversial climber
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Forbes: Ed Viesturs: ‘Reinhold Messner Was First, Always Will Be’
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2019· 1 entry
Awarded Romy (2019).
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2018· 2 entries
Awarded Princess of Asturias Award for Sports (2018).
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Received jointly with Krzysztof Wielicki the Princess of Asturias Award in the category of Sports
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2014· 1 entry
Awarded Courage Award (2014).
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2010· 2 entries
Awarded Lifetime Piolet d'Or (2010).
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Received the 2nd Piolet d'Or Lifetime Achievement Award
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2006· 2 entries
Founded the Messner Mountain Museum
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“Notes don't make music until you learn to insert silence between them.”
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2004· 1 entry
Completed a 2,000-kilometre (1,200 mi) expedition through the Gobi Desert
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2003· 1 entry
Messner started work on a project for a mountaineering museum
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2001· 1 entry
Won Patron’s Medal (2001).
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1999· 2 entries
Career landmark: Member of the European Parliament (1999–2004).
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Messner was elected Member of the European Parliament for the Federation of the Greens (FdV), the Italian green party, receiving more than 20,000 votes in the European election
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1989· 1 entry
Messner led a European expedition to the South Face of the mountain
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1988· 1 entry
Earned Silver Olympic Order (1988).
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1986· 2 entries
Messner became the first to complete all fourteen eight-thousanders (peaks over 8,000 metres above sea level)
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Messner returned and succeeded in reaching the summit using the normal route with Kammerlander and Mutschlechner
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1985· 3 entries
Awarded Bancarella Sport Prize (1985).
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Messner topped out on Annapurna
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Richard Bass first postulated and achieved the mountaineering challenge Seven Summits, climbing the highest peaks of each of the seven continents
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1984· 1 entry
This time together with Hans Kammerlander
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1982· 2 entries
Messner scaled Broad Peak, his third eight-thousander that year
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Messner wanted to become the first climber ever to scale three eight-thousanders in one year
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1978· 4 entries
Made a solo ascent of the Diamir face of Nanga Parbat
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Career landmark: ascent of Mount Everest.
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Reached the summit of Everest with Habeler
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On 9 August 1978, after three unsuccessful expeditions, Messner reached the summit of Nanga Parbat again via the Diamir Face
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1974· 1 entry
And 1981 on the South Face of the south-east ridge
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1972· 1 entry
Messner succeeded in climbing Manaslu on what was then the unknown south face of the mountain, of which there were not even any pictures
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1971· 1 entry
Was primarily looking for his brother's remains
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1970· 3 entries
Messner was invited to join a major Himalayan expedition that was going to attempt the unclimbed Rupal face of Nanga Parbat
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And 1978 he reached the summit (in 1978 solo); in 1971, 1973 and 1977, he did not
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Messner had made a name for himself mainly through his achievements in the Alps
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1969· 1 entry
Messner joined an Andes expedition, during which he succeeded, together with Peter Habeler, in making the first ascent of the Yerupaja east face up to the summit ridge and, a few days later, the first ascent of the 6,121
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1968· 1 entry
Achieved further firsts: the Heiligkreuzkofel middle pillar and the direct south face of the Marmolada
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1967· 1 entry
Made the first ascent of the northeast face of the Agnèr and the first winter ascents of the Agnèr north face and Furchetta north face
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1965· 1 entry
Climbed a new direttissima route on the north face of the Ortler
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1944· 1 entry
Born 1944-09-17.
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