라인홀트 메스너 (1944-)

라인홀트 메스너는 이탈리아의 산악인으로 히말라야산맥의 8000미터 봉우리를 의미하는 14좌를 최초로 모두 정복하였다. 특히 최고봉인 에베레스트산을 홀로 무산소 등정한 최초의 사람이기도 하다. 1970년 낭가파르바트산을 시작으로 1986년 로체산에 오르면서 8000미터 이상 고봉을 모두 등정했고 그 뒤에는 등반 경험을 바탕으로 20권이나 되는 저술을 남겨 독일과 이탈리아에서 산악문학상을 3번 수상했다.

Reinhold Messner (1944-)

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 supplemental 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.

Messner Mountain Museum

The Messner Mountain Museum (MMM) is a museum project created in 2006 by Italian mountaineer and extreme climber Reinhold Messner in South Tyrol in northern Italy. Messner's museum project is designed to educate visitors on "man's encounter with mountains" and deals with the science of mountains and glaciers, the history of mountaineering and rock climbing, the history of mythical mountains, and the history of mountain-dwelling people.