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Italian writer and
mountain climber Reinhold
Messner was
the first man to summit Mt. Everest without the use of oxygen and the
first to solo it. Among his books are, Free Spirit, A Climbers
Life; My Quest for Yeti; The Crystal Horizon; Everest-The First Solo
Ascent; Annapurna: 50 Years of Expeditions in the Death Zone; The
Second Death of George Mallory, and K2.
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