Outspoken, charismatic, daring and brilliant, few individuals hold the respect of the mountaineering community like Reinhold Messner ... first person to climb Everest solo and without ...

Günther Messner perished during the descent and Reinhold, after an epic battle for survival ... he became the first to climb Everest solo (1978) and he was the first to link two 8000m peaks (1984).