Reinhold Messner

Reinhold Messner is an Italian mountaineer, explorer and author widely regarded as the greatest climber of all time. He was the first person to climb all fourteen 8,000-metre peaks and the first to summit Everest without supplemental oxygen. Against the Wind, available as an audiobook and book, reflects on his extraordinary life of adventure and risk. Messner writes with the authority of someone who has pushed human endurance to its absolute limits, captivating readers and listeners.