Geographical, December 1st, 2000
Paul Deegan meets the man widely regarded as the world's greatest mountaineer, who at age of 56 is now climbing the walls of his parliamentary office in Brussels
AFTER ALL THE stories and all the hyperbole, actually meeting Reinhold Messner shatters the myths surrounding him as surely as latest book has dispelled the legend of the Yeti. Messner is surprisingly short, with a thick mane of hair and a full beard. He could easily pass himself off as a Tyrolean Bransonesque businessmen -- a comparison, as I am, to find out, that is not too far wide of the mark, He has none of the bulging muscles...
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