The Naked Mountain
REINHOLD MESSNER is the author of forty books, including The Crystal Horizon, Everest: Expedition to the Ultimate, All Fourteen 8000ers and The Big Walls. Translation by TIM CARRUTHERS (Eiger: The Vertical Arena, Hermann Buhl: Climbing without Compromise, Anderl Heckmair’s My Life, and Messner’s Annapurna and The Big Walls).