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).
Outside even compared him to Reinhold Messner: "What Reinhold Messner did for alpinism, Ammons did for paddling".
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.
In another section, he talks with mountaineer Reinhold Messner, in which they discuss a potential film project in the Himalayas to star Klaus Kinski.
In the spring of 2003, after much controversy, Reinhold Messner was given a licence for his long-planned mountain museum.
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Today its ruins house the fourth mountain museum established by the South Tyrolean mountaineer, Reinhold Messner.
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.
Reinhold Messner | Reinhold Schünzel | Judge Reinhold | Reinhold Remmert | Reinhold Mack | Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz | Reinhold Mitterlehner | Reinhold Glière | Reinhold Schmieding | Reinhold Platz | Reinhold Beckmann | Julius Reinhold Friedlander | Gottfried Reinhold Treviranus | Carl Reinhold August Wunderlich | The Unauthorized Biography of Reinhold Messner | Reinhold Würth | Reinhold Rau | Reinhold Joest | Reinhold Curicke | Reinhold Conrad Muschler | Reinhold Begas | Reinhold Aman | Mark Messner | Henry Reinhold | Heinrich Messner | Frans Reinhold Kjellman | Erasmus Reinhold |
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.
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.