Reinhold Messner Livres

Voici à peine un siècle, on trouvait encore indécent de voir une femme en tenue de ski. En 1974, une expédition féminine atteint pour la première fois un sommet de plus de 8000 mètres. Trente-cinq ans plus tard, parmi les vingt-deux alpinistes parvenus au sommet des quatorze plus de 8000, se trouvent deux femmes. Comme dans de nombreux domaines, le XXe siècle a donc été déterminant pour ouvrir au deuxième sexe les portes de l'alpinisme. Quelles ont été les pionnières en la matière ? Et à quel prix ? Reinhold Messner brosse le portrait de ces femmes d'exception: Hettie Dyhrenfurth, qui conserva longtemps le record d'altitude pour une femme, Junko Tabei, surnommée "Madame Everest", ou, plus récemment, l'Espagnole Edurne Pasaban, l'Italienne Nives Meroi, l'Allemande Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner, sans oublier bien sûr la Française Catherine Destivelle...

Awe-inspiring views of high peaks as they have never been seen before, using cutting-edge satellite technology Mountains marks a new milestone in Earth observation and Alpine exploration. For the first time, a special recording process and a technique developed at the German Aerospace Center (DLR) allow the satellite recording of three-dimensional views from 300 miles above with a resolution in the range of a few meters. Photorealistic images are created in this manner from perspectives denied even to mountaineers and helicopter pilots. In addition to highly accurate detailed models of individual regions, the DLR generates a global three-dimensional elevation model of Earth in unprecedented quality. For this purpose, two German satellites are currently circling the earth at a speed of more than 15,000 miles per hour—separated by a mere 500 feet. Taken together, both techniques offer a detailed view of a world that still pushes human beings to their limits—the mountainous regions of our planet. For this book Reinhold Messner has selected thirteen peaks and routes to feature, as they’ve never been seen before.

Illustrated throughout with colour photographs, this title aims to offer inspirational, informative and useful reading for climbers, mountaineers and all those interested in adventure travel.

This is a peak by peak account of perhaps the greatest achievement of mountaineer Reinhold Messner - the ascent of the world's 14 8000 metre peaks between 1970 and 1986. The fourteen chapters describe the difficulties, tragedies and ultimate successes of the ascent of each peak. In these pages is the voice of a man suffering -loneliness, despair, hallucinations, the deaths of his brother and friends - but triumphing in the end - and the voice of a man conquering the barriers set up by nature.

The ascent of Nanga Parbat in 1970 marked the beginning of Reinhold Messner's remarkable career in Himalayan climbing. But this expedition has always been shrouded in controversy and mystery; his brother Gunther, who accompanied him, met his death on the mountain. Now, over thirty years later, a bitter quarrel has broken out between Messner and the other participants in the Himalayan expedition. Is Messner to blame for his brother's death? Or was it the team that let the two of them down? In The Naked Mountain Messner gives his side of the story in full for the first time. This most personal account is a story of death and survival...and for those who want to understand what is the force that drives Messner on, this book is the key. Extensively reviewed in the German media, this book is sure to arouse enormous interest in the UK climbing fraternity.