Reinhold Messner and the icing on the cake – Fritz Neumann

2023-09-25 15:14:30

Do you know what an icing on the cake is? Someone who takes things too seriously, a bean counter or someone who has digested small, dark raisins named following a Greek port city. Such riders, counters and endurance now sound like Reinhold Messner wouldn’t have been the first to climb all 14 eight-thousanders because in 1985 he missed the highest point of Annapurna (8091 meters) in a snowstorm and without GPS by exactly 65 meters or five meters in altitude should have.

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