Everest: Expedition to the Ultimate

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Everest by fair means – that is the human dimension, and that is what interests me … In reaching for the oxygen cylinder, a climber degrades Everest … a climber who doesn't rely on his own strength and skills, but on apparatus and drugs, deceives himself.' In May 1978 Reinhold Messner and Peter Habeler became the first climbers in history to reach the summit of Mount Everest without the use of supplementary oxygen – an event which made international headlines and permanently altered the future of mountaineering. In Everest: Expedition to the Ultimate, Messner tells how they accomplished the im.;Acknowledgements -; -- Everest 2000 -; -- Everest as Consumable -; The Idea; -- From an Idea into an Ideal -; -- With or Without Face Masks? -; -- The Attempts of Norton and Mallory -; -- Disappeared -; -- Everest without Oxygen '78 -; -- Fanatics, Charlatans, Conquerors -; The Mountain; -- Dawa Tensing's Hat -; -- What If ...? -; -- Yak and Yeti -; -- In the Icefall -; -- Camp Work -- Camp Life -; -- Collapse of the Ice Wall -; -- Quite Alone -; -- The Yellow Band -; -- Buried Alive -; -- A Whisky Bottle Full of Blood -; -- At Death's Door -; -- Impossible -; -- Everyone Wants to go to the Summit.