Reinhold Messner: My Life At The Limit

Reinhold Messner: My Life at the Limitis a conversation between Messner and interviewer Thomas Hetlin, an award-winning German journalist. It reveals a more thoughtful and conversational Messner, covering not only the highlights of Messners climbing career, but also his treks across Tibet, the Gobi, and Antarctica; his five-year-stint as a member of the European Parliament; his encounter with and study of the yeti; his thoughts on traditional male/female roles; and much more. Readers learn about Messners childhood, his thoughts about eating ice cream with girls (against), politics (mostly liberal), and his technique for killing chickens (sharp scissors).

Messner is known as one of historys greatest Himalayan mountaineers, a man who pushed back the frontiers of the possible for a whole generation of climbers.

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