Why a Climber Battles Critics: Because They're There.

Authors :: Pohl, Otto
Source :: New York Times. 6/26/2004, Vol. 153 Issue 52892, pA4-A4. 999p. 1 Black and White Photograph.
Publication Year :: 2004
Abstract: Profiles Reinhold Messner, a mountain climber. Career achievements; Advantages of his confrontational and combative nature; Author of “Into Thin Air,” Jon Krakauer's comparison of Messner to Michael Jordan; Filing of lawsuits seeking to ban publication of books by his former climbing partners; Controversy over the death of his brother, Gunther during their 1970 expedition on Nanga Parbat in Pakistan.