Messner’s Museums in the Mountains
Travel Blog • Eva Holland • 07.29.08 | 2:29 PM ET
After a lifetime of conquering summits around the world, legendary climber Reinhold Messner is at work on a new challenge: creating a chain of mountaineering museums on his home turf, South Tyrol. The Telegraph’s Adrian Bridge took a stroll in the Dolomites with Messner, and asked him about the museums, his past achievements, and the state of modern mountaineering.
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