by Reinhold Messner · Ediciones Desnivel, S. L · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788487746406
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«Zona de la muerte, la: terreno fronterizo» is Reinhold Messner's mountaineering essay, published by Ediciones Desnivel in paperback (231 pages, in Spanish).
Reinhold Messner brings together his own experiences and those of climbers such as Walter Bonatti, Hermann Buhl and René Desmaison in the zone above 7,500 metres, the so-called death zone, where oxygen is scarce and survival is measured in hours or days. The body reaches a painless lucidity, weightlessness and a strange serenity in the face of death.
First edition, published on 1 June 1994 by Ediciones Desnivel. The volume measures 14 x 21 cm and comprises 231 pages.
Will appeal to mountaineering enthusiasts and mountain literature readers seeking accounts of human limits in extreme conditions.
Reinhold Andreas Messner is an Italian climber, explorer, and author from the German-speaking province of South Tyrol. He made the first solo ascent of Mount Everest and, along with Peter Habeler, the first ascent of Everest without supplementary oxygen. He was the first person to climb all 14 eight-thousanders, doing so without supplementary oxygen. Messner was the first to cross Antarctica and Greenland with neither snowmobiles nor dog sleds and also crossed the Gobi Desert alone. He is widely considered to be the greatest mountaineer of all time.
