A ls age of five he was on his first three thousand. A good 35 years later he ascended as the first man all 14 eight-thousanders in the world. He managed with Peter Habeler first time the Mount Everest without oxygen and later alone. Reinhold Messner has written alpine history.
fans admire his iron will, his border-crossing daring and his grandiose achievements. Critics accuse him of excessive ambition and selfishness. Extreme. This marks his life. Today he is 70 years old. He will celebrate another day. Having hundreds of guests and bivouac on the Alm
high mountains of South Tyrol is still rising. His focus but elsewhere. “Travelling is no longer the center of my life.” His projects are rather under the heading: storytelling, convey and represent – often himself and his adventures
Neues Museum in 2275 meters height
He wrote books. trained manager, created a museum project. His “15 eight-thousanders” he called the “Messner Mountain Museum”. At five places he deals with mountain people and mountain climbing, the relationship between man-mountain, as he says. The sixth Museum on 2275 meters at the Kronplatz is almost finished. For years he also toying with the film. . He wanted to capture “the mountain as lead actor on the big screen”
A new book is also available. Concepts With 70 provides Messner himself and his life is “survival” is the title for more than 300 pages, with whom he congratulates himself for his birthday. “We met at meals in the kitchen, just as Stone Age clans campfire places met,” he writes about his childhood in Villnößtal and cited traditional societies where children are still able to develop freely – as he and his eight brothers and sisters. The following are scenes of extreme tours: ice, stone, storm, threat – borderline situations. Messner calls himself commuters.
Loss of Brother shaped his life
Between memory and reflections on life, he philosophizes about the “human nature”, the “first of all to survival “pledge and finally concludes:”. therefore Survived The Do is the basis for my “survival” ” Also: “Even the discovery that the world would be the same, it would never have been me, no impertinence is more.”
Messner also describes the special relationship with his brother Günther, with he climbed early difficult routes. In 1970 by the brothers rose as the first expedition the Rupalwand, the highest cliff in the world. Günther died. The loss coined Messner’s life. “The Nanga Parbat tragedy is like a crack in my life,” he writes. He had disputes with both the expedition leader Karl-Maria Herrligkoffer, whom he accused of failure to render assistance, and decades later, with the ex-comrades. Processes brought no real peace. Messner says today: “It is and remains a character assassination story.”
As a politician in the European Parliament
mountaineer, adventurer, mountain farmer. Messner lives with his wife and children in Merano and Juval Castle and manages Mountain Farms; in Solda he breeds yaks. For the Greens, he was five years in the European Parliament. His foundation supports hill tribes. And he has been active as Yetiforscher: So the snow man is a bear
Messner and his generation changed in the 70s and 80s mountaineering.. Messner criticized driven by national ambition “summits” – the mountain was finally no enemy – and advocated a mountaineering only for yourself With the abandonment of the expedition convoy, fixed ropes and oxygen bottles he coined and some other then the alpine style.. Messner invented here with solo programs at eight-thousand new standards. And as a media professional and communication skills he sat down then himself in scene.
By Antarctica, Greenland and the Gobi
Desert After the almost unbeatable successes in high-altitude mountaineering sought he new goals. He crossed the Antarctic, Greenland and the Gobi Desert. What drives him, where does this restless urge to challenge? “For Reinhold rebellion is a bit more content”, the psychoanalyst Hansjörg Messner says in the semi-documentary film “Messner” about his famous brother
Maybe:. Revolt against bourgeois narrowness of his native valley – and the strict father. “We have defended ourselves early., And have thus built up and this self-weirs resistance, is for me a life long remained part of my existence,” Messner says in the film. “That is when I feel resistance, then I try to overcome this resistance A rock wall is nothing different..”
The 1990 deceased Luis Trenker said about Messner: “A great climber , a fabulous technician, intelligent, daring, knows what he wants, all the respect on the other side: immoderate vanity, to the press too much advertising, no reverence for nature, does not believe in God – and that must not a climber! missing, I do not like. now you know! “
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