If Reinhold Messner wasn’t the first person to climb all the 8,000m peaks, who was?

July 13, 2022 Opinion and advice 8000m peaks, annapurna, eberhard jurgalski, ed viesturs, first ascents, nirmal purja, reinhold messner, veikka gustafsson 17 Comments

If Reinhold Messner wasn’t the first person to climb all the 8,000m peaks, who was?

There have been rumours in the mountaineering world for a few years now that all the records about ascents of the world’s fourteen 8,000m peaks might need to be rewritten, including whether the great Reinhold Messner was first to climb them all.

10 high-altitude mountaineering lookalikes

February 17, 2021 Humour 8000m peaks, doug scott, ed viesturs, hermann buhl, krzysztof wielicki, mingma gyalje sherpa, nirmal purja, phil crampton, reinhold messner, ueli steck 14 Comments

10 high-altitude mountaineering lookalikes

I know some people found my previous post a bit heavy. So to cheer everyone up at the end of a dark season in difficult times, and to prove that this isn’t just another serious climbing blog, here’s something a little more light-hearted.