Reinhold Messner Don't Care What You Think

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3. Messner was the best

First to climb all the 8,000 meter peaks. Always struck me as kind of an odd guy, but I salute his accomplishments and all-around toughness.

I used to read every mountaineering book I could get my hands on, but I eventually became disenchanted with the whole thing when commercialism changed the sport so much. That and the fact that so many people die on Everest, K2, and the other big peaks.