Messner's mountaineering achievements astonished the world.
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Most prominent bearer is Reinhold Messner (Reinhold Messner, born 1944), the South Tyrolean mountaineer who in 1978 made the first oxygen-free ascent of Everest with Peter Habeler, and in 1986 became the first to climb all fourteen 8,000-meter peaks. A landmark figure in extreme alpinism.