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Reinhold Messner

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Italian mountaineer, adventurer and explorer (born 1944)

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Reinhold Andreas Messner is an Italian explorer, politician, writer, and mountaineer born on September 17, 1944, in Brixen. He speaks Italian and German, with German as his native language. Messner has served as a Member of the European Parliament and is a member of the Federation of the Greens. His work locations include Strasbourg and Brussels. He is the sibling of Günther Messner and owns Juval Castle.

Messner has received the Princess of Asturias Award for Sports, the Romy, and the Bambi Award. He has collaborated with Fila, Inc. As an author, he has published works such as *Internationalisierung des Strafrechts*, *Montañas desde el espacio*, *Alleingang Nanga Parbat*, and *EN LOS LÍMITES DE LA TIERRA*. He is also listed in the acting department.

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Person · Open Library

Born
1944
Works
160

Top works

  • Internationalisierung des Strafrechts
  • Montañas desde el espacio
  • Alleingang Nanga Parbat
  • Reinhold Messner
  • EN LOS LÍMITES DE LA TIERRA

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Film & TV

Acting · Brixen, South Tyrol, Italy

Reinhold Messner, born September 17, 1944 in Bressanone/Brixen in South Tyrol, is a German-speaking Italian mountaineer, considered by many to be one of the best of the 20th century. A great defender of the alpine style and destroyer of the expedition style, he is notably known for having made the first ascent of Everest without oxygen supply with Peter Habeler, in May 1978, and was the first to…

Known for

  • K2 Chasing Shadows — Self (archive footage)2025
  • The Last Expedition — Self2024
  • Sul Tetto del Mondo - Walter Bonatti e Rossana Podestà2021
  • 14 Peaks: Nothing Is Impossible — Himself2021
  • The Alpinist — Self2021
  • Nanga Parbat - Mein Schlüsselberg — Self2021
  • Die große Zinne - 150 Jahre Kletterkunst2020
  • Meine Achttausender – Reinhold Messner2020
  • Mythos Cerro Torre: Reinhold Messner auf Spurensuche — Self2019
  • Fine Lines — Self2019

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Origin
Italy
Active from
1944

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
356
Total plays
11,099

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Encyclopedic overview

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 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 Greenland with neither snowmobiles nor dog sleds and also crossed the Gobi Desert alone. He is widely considered to be the greatest mountaineer of all time.

From 1999 to 2004, Messner served as a member of the European Parliament for north-east Italy, as a member of the Federation of the Greens.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Reinhold Messner” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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