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Against the Wind MESSNER
Reflections on a Self-Determined Life
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Expected: 1st December 2025
| Cordee Code: | CPB262 |
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| No of Pages: | 288 |
| Publisher: | Mountaineers Books |
| ISBN13: | 9781680518184 |
| Published Date: | November 2025 |
| Edition: | 1st: Nov 2025 |
| Binding: | Paperback (flapped) |
| Illustrations: | Colour + B&W Photos |
| Product Type: | Book |
The "Mountain King" looks back on eight decades, summit controversies, and his lasting legacy of climbing for the experience and the journey
Reinhold Messner is one of history's greatest mountaineers, a man who pushed the frontier of what is possible for a whole generation of climbers and beyond. In his new memoir, Against the Wind, Messner looks back on a life of accomplishments and recounts some of the most important episodes after turning eighty in 2024.
He also addresses darker times and infamous controversies--including being discredited as a young mountaineer, his divorce and remarriage, Guinness stripping him of his world records in 2023, the recent revisions to measurements of 8000-meter summits, and the discovery of his brother Gunther's remains on Nanga Parbat.
This new memoir is classic Messner--no apologies, no regrets, and no backing down.
Reinhold Messner is one of history's greatest mountaineers, a man who pushed the frontier of what is possible for a whole generation of climbers and beyond. In his new memoir, Against the Wind, Messner looks back on a life of accomplishments and recounts some of the most important episodes after turning eighty in 2024.
He also addresses darker times and infamous controversies--including being discredited as a young mountaineer, his divorce and remarriage, Guinness stripping him of his world records in 2023, the recent revisions to measurements of 8000-meter summits, and the discovery of his brother Gunther's remains on Nanga Parbat.
This new memoir is classic Messner--no apologies, no regrets, and no backing down.