Messner bad@ss?

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ClimberDave

Trad climber
The LBC, CA
Topic Author's Original Post - Nov 26, 2014 - 11:19am PT
Pretty much says he is.
Entertaining article about a great climber.

http://www.badassoftheweek.com/messner.html

RyanD

climber
Squamish
Nov 26, 2014 - 11:19am PT
Duh!
Gary

Social climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
Nov 26, 2014 - 11:30am PT
so he pioneered his response – "alpine style" mountaineering

Yes, he pioneered it after Buhl started it.
survival

Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
Nov 26, 2014 - 11:47am PT
Alpine style came first in the waaaaay back machine. It invented itself. Expeditioning and seiging came later.

Then Messner invented it!
kaholatingtong

Trad climber
Nevada City
Nov 26, 2014 - 11:58am PT
I have seen this before, but read again; this sh#t cracks me up, its so over the top.
Marlow

Sport climber
OSLO
Nov 26, 2014 - 11:59am PT

Parts of the article are annoying. The words "Reinhold Messner isn't still out there making the most formidable and deadliest mountains on Earth look like a bunch of pussies" are the words of a choirboy singing a false tune. The mountains took the life of his brother, and they treated him well when they didn't take his life too. He had the skill and luck was on his side.
steve shea

climber
Nov 26, 2014 - 12:07pm PT
And then Jerzy Kukczka took it to the next and mostly unrepeated level. New routes on 8000m peaks, in winter without O's. Nobody did it better... the Poles as a group rule. Messner was bad ass though.

The Poles took high altitude super alpinism consistently to levels never achieved before. Even Messner thinks Jerzy was the man.
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