Acclaimed as the world's greatest living mountaineer, Reinhold Messner became the first climber to ascend all 14 of the world's 8000 metre peaks. This book is drawn from a selection of his writings, but also includes much previousely unpublished material, and forms a compendium of his major expeditions to the world's foremost mountains, including Gasherbrum, Naga Parbat, K2 and his epic ascent of Everest in 1978 without the aid of oxygen. Other work by the author includes "All Eight-Thousanders" and "Antartica - Both Heaven and Hell".
- ISBN10 1861262973
- ISBN13 9781861262974
- Publish Date 20 September 1999 (first published 31 August 1992)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 3 January 2007
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint The Crowood Press Ltd
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback
- Pages 256
- Language English