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Reinhold Messner, often called the world’s greatest mountain climber, looks back over his career with surprising candor and self-revelation. Messner's quest for self-knowledge through extreme adventures pushed him through his first climbs with his father in the Italian Dolomites, to his first solo ascents of Mount Everest. “Messner” includes rare film of his astonishing climbs of the world’s highest mountains - without using bottled oxygen and often alone.

In the 1970s, Messner championedascending Mount Everest without supplementary oxygen, saying that he would do it "by fair means" or not at all.

In 1978, he reached the summit of Everest with Peter Habeler, an achievement most doctors and mountaineers thought impossible. This accomplishment changed mountaineering forever.

He repeated the feat, without Habeler, from the Tibetan side in 1980, marking Everest's first solo summit. In 1986, Messner also became the first individual to climb all fourteen eight-thousanders (peaks over 8,000 metres above sea level).

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