The one-man sect: Reinhold Messner in its natural habitat
There are not a measure of Reinhold Messner. Like a solitary he is beyond all other mountaineers and adventurers. As a one-man sect he described himself on occasion. And relatively sober, he claims to have “autistic elements”. What he was doing, he says he will do for himself. And in doing only he could see.
The tasks he set himself to no one dared before even thinking – and no one but him would have been able to solve each of their time. You just have to Andreas Nickels movie “Messner” look (now on DVD from Movienetfilm) to understand some of the madness that it meant, as Reinhold Messner has climbed solo in the summer of 1969, between breakfast and lunch, thousands of feet high Droites- North Face after former Mountaineer teams had always used for several days. Handle turn. Handle turn. Unsecured. Only with crampons on their feet and Eiswerkzeug in hand. As a dance looks the. A single elegant, flowing movement. Thousand meters vertically upwards. As gravity is repealed.
The late work?
It was the beginning of his “Verzichtsalpinismus”, the reduction of the material to the absolute minimum. It was also a turning point in mountaineering. And Reinhold Messner would from now on only in the Alps, the Himalayas and then later in the endlessness of sand and ice deserts with consistently hubris survived the impossible. Steeper, higher, stronger. Although, as he says, it never went to his records. He is concerned with finding the boundary between this world and the hereafter, the “resistance against the challenged death” as quoted Gottfried Benn. The nearness of death was sometimes addictive, and every success demanded the next larger out in a logical consequence, which is why the euphoria could be followed immediately by the Depression. Survived but to have resembled him every time a rebirth. Longing for death, however, he never felt; on the contrary.
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“survival” is his latest book, his fiftieth about. It appears to Reinhold Messner’s seventieth birthday, which he celebrates today. It is quieter, more thoughtful than many of his other books, even if you ultimately learns little new. And it has a milder tone. As from a distance can Messner pass his life in review. The Childhood in Funes Valley and the wild climbing with his brother Günther, the eight thousand mountain ascent and extreme hikes, his time as a politician and the founding of its museums. Two accidents – the death of his brother on Nanga Parbat and his fall from the castle wall, where he has smashed the heel bone – divided the band into three parts, for which he re-spelled the book titles each: from the prompt “Ov Life” on the tangible “survival” to the old show “survival”.
Far from the end
With seventy small chapters each life station as the occasion, the limit transition as a way of life, than to present his philosophy of life, when the memories in clashes with courage and fear, instinct and risk, God, religion and morality lead. Some of the chapters are like polished presentations for business leaders, others a chat, others show Reinhold Messner as a brilliant storyteller. Influenced they are all. Of the demand for a moral liberated, sovereign individual Since it is no wonder that in his world view Nietzsche’s Übermensch, to this as the self and its sense ratios overcoming people defined, is a reference point. And yet in another point, the thinking Messner overlaps with that of the philosophers.
For Nietzsche, the artist embodies the life-affirming way of life, the aesthetic overcoming a certain rational world view. Messner for the border crossing is a work of art, the search for the perfect composition, only important to him. At the same time, however, he gives him the opportunity to gain insights into the nature of man in the moment of danger to life – up to that moment, in which a nearly urmenschlicher instinct breaks from him and directs him beyond all his past experience gained. So because his book is neither pamphlet nor counselor. You can not copy Messner. One can comprehend it only as a proxy, the – the mythical heroes equal to -. Penetrates into spheres that are normally reserved for the gods
And now? With seventy? In one scheme, Reinhold Messner will not be pressed. Still not. The value of freedom, however, he writes at the end of the chapter, “aging”, must now be re-interpreted. And “suffering,” he says, “I can pursue the useless without feeling guilty and now at the age to enjoy the descent.” But it does not take out fink parent hermeneutics to recognize the allusions to a new, big project between the lines of his book .
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