45 years ago: Reinhold Messner’s solo ascent of Mount Everest
“In 1980 on Everest, I was more wiped out than ever before and not even after that,” Reinhold Messner told me five years ago when we talked about 20 August 1980—the day he stood alone on the summit of the highest mountain on earth. “I had fantastic weather, was very well acclimatized and made very…