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7 unusual facts about Reinhold Messner


Arved Fuchs

On December 30, 1989, he and the famous mountain climber Reinhold Messner were the first to reach the South Pole without animal or motorised help, on skis, and with wind-assistance (parasail).

Doug Ammons

Outside even compared him to Reinhold Messner: "What Reinhold Messner did for alpinism, Ammons did for paddling".

Helmut Ditsch

Around this time Helmut Ditsch became acquainted with and befriended the world-renowned mountaineer Reinhold Messner in Meran, with whom he has since collaborated on numerous occasions.

Portrait Werner Herzog

In another section, he talks with mountaineer Reinhold Messner, in which they discuss a potential film project in the Himalayas to star Klaus Kinski.

Sigmundskron Castle

In the spring of 2003, after much controversy, Reinhold Messner was given a licence for his long-planned mountain museum.

Today its ruins house the fourth mountain museum established by the South Tyrolean mountaineer, Reinhold Messner.

The Dark Glow of the Mountains

It is about an expedition made by freestyle mountain climber Reinhold Messner and his partner Hans Kammerlander to climb Gasherbrum II and Gasherbrum I all in one trip without returning to base camp.


Nanga Parbat

Nanga Parbat is a movie by Joseph Vilsmaier about the tragic expedition by the two Messner brothers in 1970, on which Reinhold Messner's younger brother Günther died.

Scream of Stone

The script was written principally by longtime Herzog production designer Walter Saxer, based on an idea from mountaineer Reinhold Messner, who Herzog had worked with in his documentary The Dark Glow of the Mountains.


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