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Crystal Horizon: Everest - The First Solo Ascent Reinhold Messner
Publisher: Mountaineers Books, The

Possibly the most famous mountaineering book ever (about the first ascent of an 8000m peak and subsequent horrific retreat), and Reinhold Messner's The Crystal Horizon (first solo Everest climb, without oxygen). Ever since I first clambered through the Polish Tatra at the tender age of 19, I've had a thing for mountains. The Crystal Horizon: Everest-The First Solo Ascent (Everest: The West Ridge). Lots of Everest books have historical lead ups to the author's climb, but Messner's is not only better written than most, but also keeps my interest in two ways. Ronald Messner, the first person to climb Everest without oxygen, wrote in his book The Crystal Horizon the following about the result of the physical stress and lack of oxygen as he reached the peak: “When I rest I feel utterly lifeless except that my throat burns when I draw breath … In 1980, during his solo ascent, Reinhold Messner imagined that an invisible companion was climbing beside him. All About The Crystal Horizon: Everest-The First Solo Ascent PDF. Reinhold Messner (born September 17, 1944) is a mountaineer and explorer from South Tyrol in Italy, often cited as the greatest mountain climber of all time, noted for making the first solo ascents of Mount Everest without supplemental oxygen and for being the first climber to ascend all fourteen "eight-thousanders" (peaks over 8,000 metres above sea level). The controversial Messner, revered by some as the spiritual leader of mountaineering and denounced by others as a macho peak-bagger, chronicles his extraordinary 1980 solo climb of the world's tallest mountain. Perhaps it's the fact that I grew up in the Netherlands, a country whose very name evokes The Crystal Horizon is Messner's personal account of his solo ascent of Mount Everest from the Tibetan side, generally considered to be the single most daring act of mountaineering. The Crystal Horizon is Messner's account of becoming the first man to summit Everest solo and without supplemental oxygen: Only quite seldom can I overcome my separation from the world I know not everyone agrees with Jon Krakauers' criticisms of Antoli Boukreev, but he makes the case that Boukreev's decision to climb (as a paid guide) without oxygen prevented him from properly caring for his clients.