Reinhold Messner

Reinhold Messner born September 17 1944 in BressanoneBrixen in South Tyrol is a Germanspeaking Italian mountaineer considered by many to be one of the best of the 20th century A great defender of the alpine style and destroyer of the expedition style he is notably known for having made the first ascent of Everest without oxygen supply with Peter Habeler in May 1978 and was the first to have climbed the fourteen peaks more 8000 meters in 1986