Messner: 40 years ago on Everest alone

On 20 August 1980, Reinhold Messner single-handedly reached the 8848-metre-high summit of Mount Everest, having conquered it two years earlier with the Tyrolean Peter Habeler without additional oxygen. Doctors had previously warned that a person could not survive at this altitude without additional oxygen, and even fellow climbers gave the…

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