An Evening with Reinnhold Messner at the AAC Annual Dinner
Last night was a special night for mountaineering. The annual American Alpine Club (AAC) dinner was held in New York City and Reinhold Messner was the after dinner speaker, no addressing a packed house. Earlier in the day, several discussion panels were held, again to a full room of interested climbers. I went to bed […]
Reinhold Messner: Mental Toughness
Most people, even non-climbers, know the name Reinhold Messner. He is arguably the finest Alpinist of all time. His firsts in climbing are legendary and include the first summit of Everest without supplemental oxygen and then he reported the feat on the North side – solo. He was the first climber to summit all fourteen […]