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On 20 August 1980 Reinhold Messner reached the summit of Everest - alone and without the use of oxygen. This is an account of his extraordinary achievement. Messner describes his journey through Tibet and identifies with mountaineers who went before him, such as Mallory, Irvine and Wilson.
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'The idea of climbing Mount Everest has been vaguely in men's minds for thirty or forty years past,' wrote Sir Francis Younghusband in 1921.
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- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 796
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