THE SEVENTH GRADE MOST EXTREME CLIMBING 1974 1st ed Hardcover DJ Fine SIGNED/INSCRIBED by Reinhold Messner (Messner, Reinhold)

	Item #: BK19-844 THE SEVENTH GRADE MOST EXTREME CLIMBING 1974 1st ed Hardcover DJ Fine SIGNED/INSCRIBED by Reinhold Messner By Messner, Reinhold Price: $175.00 List Price: $250.00 You Save $75.00 (30%) Add to wish list Click Here For Related Selections
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New York, 1974, 1st edition. 164 pp, b/w and color photos. Hardcover with dust jacket. This copy would be Fine except for a lengthy 1996 gift message on the front endpaper. The inscription is in black ink using a high quality pen, the writing is all in block letters, not cursive and is quite tidy. Otherwise the book and dust jacket are utterly Fine. This copy is SIGNED by Reinhold Messner on the half title page. Thirty years ago Reinhold Messner set forth his philosophy in this, his first book. Chris Bonington says of him, 'What has given him the edge over everyone is creative imagination. There is a wall called impossible that the great mass of people in every field face. Then one person who's got kind of extra imaginative drive jumps that wall. This is one of the scarcest of Messner's books. It is Messner's first book in English. It's a collection of Messner's difficult solo climbs in the Alps interspersed with his commentary on style, technique, philosophy, training, etc. It winds up with a brief chapter on the 1970 Rupal Face Nanga Parbat expedition, mainly discussing the physical training in preparation for the expedition. Messner's climbing record is phenomenal. He was the first person to climb the fourteen 8000m peaks: Shisha Pangma, Nanga Parbat, Everest, Kangchenjunga, Dhaulagiri, Cho Oyu, Makalu, Broad Peak, Hidden Peak, Gasherbrum 2, K2, Annapurna, Lhotse, and Manaslu. He was the first person to make a completely solo climb of an 8000m peak (Nanga Parbat), the first person to make a completely solo ascent of Mt Everest, the first person (with Peter Habeler) to climb Everest without the use of supplemental oxygen, first person (with Arved Fuchs) to traverse Antarctica without dogs or machines, first person to traverse Greenland diagonally from southeast to northwest. In 2000 he retraced Shackleton's route across South Georgia.
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