Reinhold Messner

And a few months later, this light bulb just went on in my head.

And I thought, wait a minute, if I want to know what it's like to be, you know, Reinhold Messner and ski across Antarctica to the South Pole, then I should... go try to do it instead of just reading about it.

If I want to know what it's like to be these mountaineers going to these remote mountain ranges, then I should go to the mountains instead of watching films about them.

And if these other guys can do this stuff, why shouldn't I try it too? So I climbed my first mountain when I was 32.

Right.

I sometimes wonder if Reinhold Messner also, when he survived the avalanche that killed his brother, Gunther, that maybe he thought again, like, I have a second life.

I was supposed to die then.

And so now I can take greater risks and take bigger chances because everything I'm living now is a bonus.

Even though Frank later recognized the possibility that altitude and oxygen deprivation may have played a role in what happened, he said that he was convinced that the presence felt real.

Another climber whose account captured detention was Reinhold Messner.

Reinhold was the first person to climb all 14 of the world's mountains over 8,000 feet or 2,438 meters.

He was the first to climb Everest without additional oxygen.

Yeah.

One of the, one of the great, uh, the greatest climber ever, Reinhold Messner, who, who climbed all 14, uh, uh, 8,000 meter peaks without oxygen, uh, he famously saw one.

Uh, and a big, a great story about it and, you know, and the guy's still alive, but, uh, talks, uh, uh, very fondly about seeing that Yeti, uh, i- in person when he was climbing one of these 8,000 meter peaks.

Um, w- where is the body now?

At what point then, Patrick, did someone realise, hang on, this person might not be a recent mountaineer, this person might be much older than we think?

Yes, one of the hikers who was on a Tyrolean tour was the famous alpinist who'd summited every huge peak in the world, Reinhold Messner.

And he was there with another hiker.

And they heard about the find from the persons running the refuge.

Next up, Gunther Messner went missing from Nanga Parbat in 1970.

In 1970, Gunther and Reinhold Messner, a pair of brothers, endeavored to climb Nanga Parbat, the ninth tallest mountain in the world.

This towering peak stands at an impressive 27,000 feet above sea level, situated at the western edge of the Himalayas.

Known as the Mountain of Destiny, it has claimed the lives of many climbers who have attempted to scale its treacherous heights.

An article by Betsy Reed in The Guardian showed the story of the two brothers who successfully reached the summit but ran out of food and water.

Unfortunately, one of the brothers, Gunther, suffered from altitude sickness and hallucinations, which led to his disappearance during the climb.

There have been allegations that Reinhold Messner left his brother behind.

However, Reinhold said both were descending the western, diamarsh face of the mountain when Gunther vanished.

... a footprint of a leopard on top of my shoe print.

And so I knew that the leopard had passed on that path after me, and I was reading, uh, Reinhold Messner's-

Mm-hmm

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Yeah.

I mean, I think that, uh, unauthorized biography of Reinhold Messner is a great album, like a legitimately fantastic album.

Um, yeah, I mean, um, Penelope becomes an overnight celebrity, guys.

And it's sweet.

1970.

In 1970, Gunther and Reinhold Messner, a pair of brothers, endeavored to climb Nanga Parbat, the ninth tallest mountain in the world.

This towering peak stands at an impressive 27,000 feet above sea level, situated at the western edge of the Himalayas.

Known as the Mountain of Destiny, it has claimed the lives of many climbers who have attempted to scale its treacherous heights.

An article by Betsy Reed in The Guardian showed the story of the two brothers who successfully reached the summit but ran out of food and water.

Unfortunately, one of the brothers, Gunther, suffered from altitude sickness and hallucinations, which led to his disappearance during the climb.

There have been allegations that Reinhold Messner left his brother behind.

However, Reinhold said both were descending the western diamorph face of the mountain when Gunther vanished.

altitude alpinist than a Nepalese Sherpa.

You've obviously got those like freak exceptions, like back in the day, your Uli Stecks and a few of those other guys, Reinhold Messner.

But right now, where we're at as an industry, Sherpas are the best climbers out there.

And the thing is as well, they're just better at high altitude.

like love or hate a man, you have to respect it.

You know, like what he's kind of done in the world, our world of mountaineering is incredible.

And I really think second probably only to Reinhold Messner.

To go into the unknown, you have to have a mindset of I am capable.