Reinhold Messner

In his most successful lecture "About Life", Reinhold Messner, whose curiosity and confidence are unbroken, talks exclusively and unvarnishedly about the essence of his life experience and wrestles with concepts such as courage, passion and responsibility. Now 81 years old, he deals with various chapters of his life - from home to death. Reinhold Messner talks openly and honestly about what he thinks and outlines in stages his path from South Tyrolean mountain boy to the greatest adventurer of our time. Whether as a mountaineer, combative politician, committed mountain farmer, father of four and family man, hiking friend of managers and politicians, founder of a unique museum landscape, director or captivating storyteller: Reinhold Messner has reinvented himself time and again.
He was the first person to conquer Mount Everest without an oxygen mask, climbed all 14 eight-thousanders, stood on the Seven Summits and 3,500 other peaks. He crossed the world's largest ice and sand deserts on foot. Hardly anyone has gone to their limits as often as he has.
With powerful words and images, he looks back on eight decades that were characterized by early encounters with death and extreme experiences in nature. He talks about ambition and shame, nightmares and inevitable ageing, about new beginnings and the ability to let go at the end.
He says: "Whenever things became particularly difficult in my life, I went one step further than I would have done without resistance and problems." Messner, who turned eighty in September 2024, has a fascinating presence when he talks about spectacular, often perilous adventures on the world's highest mountains.
Experience Reinhold Messner, the man and frontier runner, up close and live on the big stage