In 1978 scientists claimed that climbing Everest without oxygen was a death sentence because the thin air above 8000m would essentially stop the human body. On May 8 that year, Reinhold Messner and Peter Habeler defied these predictions. An earlier attempt was abandoned when Habeler suffered food poisoning at base camp, but they regrouped and continued. Slowly and with great difficulty they ascended, and against all odds reached the summit without bottled oxygen. Their feat forever changed the w

57K views · 226 reactions |  As a five-year-old, Reinhold Messner from South Tyrol was already climbing his first 3,000-meter mountain with his father. He went on to become one of the most famous mountaineers in the world. In 1980, he was the first to reach the top of Mount Everest, the highest peak in the world, alone and without bottled oxygen. He also explored Antarctica, Greenland and the Gobi Desert. Today this trailblazer, explorer and author turns 77. | DW Euromaxx | Facebook

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