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 This book is drawn from a selection of his writings, but also includes much previousely unpublished material, and forms a compendium of his major expeditions to the world's foremost mountains, including Gasherbrum, Naga Parbat, K2 and his epic ascent of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 ...
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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 This book is drawn from a selection of his writings, but also includes much previousely unpublished material, and forms a compendium of his major expeditions to the world's foremost mountains, including Gasherbrum, Naga Parbat, K2 and his epic ascent of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".
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Add this copy of To the Top of the World. Alpine Challenges in the to cart. $27.32, very good condition, Sold by Arapiles Mountain Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Castlemaine, VIC, AUSTRALIA, published 1992 by The Mountaineers.
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VG+ in VG jacket. VG+/VG. 8vo. original black boards gilt (a little rubbed & bumped) in dustwrapper (price-clipped, rubbed & a little creased, trifling nicking aand marking); pp. 252, with illustrations. A very good copy.
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