Against the Wind

Reflections on a Self-Determined Life

Reinhold Messner (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

288 Seiten

2025
Mountaineers Books (Verlag)
978-1-68051-818-4 (ISBN)

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The "Mountain King" looks back on eight decades, summit controversies, and his lasting legacy of climbing for the experience and the journey

Reinhold Messner is one of history’s greatest mountaineers, a man who pushed the frontier of what is possible for a whole generation 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 divorce and remarriage, Guinness stripping him of his world records in 2023, the recent revisions to measurements of 8000-meter summits, 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.

Erscheinungsdatum	16.10.2025
Verlagsort	Seattle
Sprache	englisch
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport
	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
ISBN-10	1-68051-818-6 / 1680518186
ISBN-13	978-1-68051-818-4 / 9781680518184
Zustand	Neuware