Against the Wind (eBook)

Reflections on a Self-Determined Life

Reinhold Messner (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2025
288 Seiten
Mountaineers Books (Verlag)
978-1-68051-819-1 (ISBN)

Infos

The "e;Mountain King"e; looks back on eight decades, summit controversies, and his lasting legacy of climbing for the experience and the journeyReinhold Messner is one of history s greatest mountaineers, a man who pushed the frontier of what is possible for a wholegeneration of climbers and beyond. In his new memoir, Against the Wind, Messner looks back on a life of accomplishments and recounts some of the most important episodes after turning eighty in 2024.He also addresses darker times and infamous controversies--including being discredited as a young mountaineer, his divorceand remarriage, Guinness stripping him of his world records in 2023, the recent revisions to measurements of 8000-metersummits, and the discovery of his brother Gunther s remains on Nanga Parbat.This new memoir is classic Messner--no apologies, no regrets, and no backing down.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.11.2025
• Zusatzinfo: 35 b&w photos
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 150 x 150 mm
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Freizeit / Hobby ► Sammeln / Sammlerkataloge
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
• ISBN-10: 1-68051-819-4 / 1680518194
• ISBN-13: 978-1-68051-819-1 / 9781680518191