Free Spirit: A Climber's Life* A mountaineering classic re-released in the Legends and Lore series * Two new chapters In Free Spirit Reinhold Messner describes the forces and events that have shaped him as a climber as famous for his discipline as for his innovative spirit. Messner evolved his philosophy of the single free-climbing line with its uncompromising purity of style in the Dolomites and, as equipment and technique developed, he was in the forefront of the transference of fast lightweight alpine methods to the great ranges. Here, he takes us from the days of his first climb (at the age of five) with his father to his brother’s tragic death on Nanga Parbat in 1970 to his later move away from the overcrowded Alps and 8000-meter peaks. He sought fulfillment, instead, in new challenges in lesser known parts of the world, such as crossing the expanse of Antarctica. Free Spirit is an exciting account of the career of a mountain pioneer. |
Contents
The Future Was a Straight Line 196165 | |
The Wall of Walls 196566 | |
Winter Firsts 196667 | |
Climbing Free 1967 | |
North Faces 1968 | |
Expedition to the Peruvian Andes 1969 | |
A Meet at Chamonix 1969 | |
Turned Back on Makalu 1974 | |
Ten Hours on the Eigerwand 1974 | |
Hidden Peak with the Minimum 1975 | |
Wall of the Midnight Sun 1976 | |
Retreat on Dhaulagiri 1977 | |
The Breach Wall on Kilimanjaro 1978 | |
Everest Without Oxygen 1978 | |
Nanga Parbat Solo 1978 | |
Crazy Solos 1969 | |
Odyssey on Nanga Parbat 197071 | |
Ndugundugu 1971 | |
Over the Mountain 1971 | |
Ascent of Mount Kenya 1972 | |
Fateful Hours on Manaslu 1972 | |
The South Face of Aconcagua 197374 | |
The Abruzzi Ridge on K2 1979 | |
Death on a Holy Mountain 1979 | |
The First Solo Ascent of Mount Everest 1980 | |
The Rest of the EightThousanders 198186 | |
The Seven Summits 1986 | |
The Horizontal World 19861996 | |
No Last Mountain 2000 | |
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