Recommended treks by the world’s greatest climber alive

Reinhold Messner
Photographed by A.Savin

Reinhold Messner is regarded by many as the world’s greatest climber alive.

He was the first person to climb all mountains higher than 8,000 metres (the "Eight-thousanders", there are 14 of them), and the first to climb Everest alone and without supplementary oxygen.

I just read a great article in the Financial Times, where he is sharing four of his favourite treks.

These are:

• Seti Khola, Nepal (a 6,993m peak never been climbed and for him the world’s most beautiful mountain)

• Tre Cime di Lavaredo, Italy (a six hours trek around five beautiful peaks in the Dolomites)

Tre Cime di Lavaredo, Italy - photographed by Günter Seggebäing

• HieloContinental Norte, Chile (one of the most beautiful and challenging treks he has ever done)

Southern Patagonian Ice Field - Grey Glacier in Torres del Paine National Park by Boludo

• Nanga Parbat, Pakistan (the most scenic of any of the treks on the 8,000m peaks) 

Nanga Parbat, Pakistan from Wikipedia

More details in  the Financial Times article.

The pictures are sourced from wikipedia.