Reinhold Messner (6)Other expeditions after 1970[edit]

Reinhold Messner at the BolzanoBacon Festival, May 2004

1971 — Journeys to the mountains of Persia, Nepal, New Guinea, Pakistan and East Africa;

1972  — Noshak (7,492 m) in the Hindu Kush;

1973 — Marmolada West Pillar, first climb; Furchetta West Face, first climb;

1974  — Aconcagua south wall (6,959 m), partially new "Tyrol Route"; Eiger North Face

with Peter Habeler in 10 hours (then a record; still today the fastest climb by a roped party);

1976 — Mount McKinley (6,193 m), "Face of the Midnight Sun", first climb;

1978  — Kilimanjaro (5,895 m), "Breach Wall", first climb;

1979 — Ama Dablam rescue attempt; first climbs in the Hoggar Mountains, Africa;

1981 — Chamlang (7,317 m) Centre Summit-North Face, first climb;

1985 — Tibet Transversale with Kailash exploration;

1986 — Crossing of East Tibet; Mount Vinson (4,897 m, Antarctic), on 3 December 1986, thus

becoming the first person to completeSeven Summits without the use of supplemental oxygen

on Mount Everest;[17]

1987 — Bhutan trip; Pamir trip;

1988 — Yeti-Tibet solo expedition;

1989–1990 — Antarctic crossing (over the South Pole) on foot, 2,800-km trek with Arved Fuchs;

1991 — Bhutan crossing (east-west); "Around South Tyrol" as a positioning exercise;

1992 — Ascent of Chimborazo (6,310 m); crossing of Taklamakan Desert in Xinjiang

1993 — Trip to Dolpo, Mustang and Manang in Nepal; Greenland longitudinal crossing

(diagonal) on foot, 2,200-km trek;

1994 — Cleaning project in North India/Gangotri, Shivling region (6,543 m);

to Ruwenzori (5,119 m), Uganda;

1995 — Arctic crossing (Siberia to Canada) failed; trip to Belukha (4,506 m), Altai

Mountains/Siberia;

1996 — Trip through East Tibet and to Kailash.

1997 — Trip to Kham (East Tibet); small expedition into Karakorum; filming on the Ol Doinyo

Lengai (holy mountain of the Massai) in Tanzania

1998  — Trip to the Altai Mountains (Mongolia) and to Puna de Atacama (Andes)

1999 — Filming: San Francisco Peaks, Arizona (Holy mountain of Navajo); trip into the Thar

Desert/India

2000 — Crossing of South Georgia on the Shackleton Route; Nanga Parbat Expedition; filming

on Mount Fuji/Japan for the ZDF series Wohnungen der Götter (~"Homes of the Gods")

2001  — Dharamsala and foothills of the Himalayas/India; ZDF series Wohnungen der

Götter on Gunung Agung/Bali

2002 — In the "International Year of the Mountains" visit by mountaineers into the Andes and

ascent of Cotopaxi (5,897 m), Ecuador

2003 — Trekking to Mount Everest (fiftieth anniversary of the first successful climb); trip to Franz

Joseph Land/Arctic; on 1 October opening of the "Günther Mountain School" in the Diamir

Valley on Nanga Parbat/Pakistan

2004 — Longitudinal crossing of the Gobi Desert (Mongolia) on foot, about 2,000 km trek

2005 — Trip to the Dyva Nomads in Mongolia; "time journey" around Nanga Parbat/Pakistan

The Seven Summits[edit]

In 1985 Richard Bass first postulated and achieved the mountaineering challenge Seven Summits,

climbing the highest peaks of each of the seven continents. Messner suggested another list

(the Messner or Carstensz list) replacing Mount Kosciuszko with Indonesia's Puncak Jaya, or

Carstensz Pyramid (4,884 m or 16,024 ft). From a mountaineering point of view the Messner list is

the more challenging one. Climbing Carstensz Pyramid has the character of an expedition, whereas

the ascent of Kosciuszko is an easy hike. In May 1986 Pat Morrow became the first person to

complete the Messner list, followed by Messner himself when he summitted Mount Vinson in

December 1986 to become the second.[17]