6 Questions for Reinhold Messner

The South Tyrolean Reinhold Messner was always looking to make the impossible possible. The result reads like a string of superlatives: he was the first to conquer all 14 eight-thousanders without an oxygen tank, climbed the Seven Summits and stood on fabulous 3500 mountain peaks. Even at the age of 60, he crossed the Gobi Desert on foot. Today, the summit climber, who at least in spirit always kept both feet on the ground, describes himself as a Sunday mountaineer. He lives with his wife Diane at Juval Castle in South Tyrol.