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Reinhold Messner (born 17 September 1944) is an Italian mountaineer, adventurer and explorer from the German-speaking autonomous province Alto Adige/Südtirol "whose astonishing feats on Everest and on peaks throughout the world have earned him the status of the greatest climber in history." He is renowned for making the first solo ascent of Mount Everest without supplemental oxygen and for being the first climber to ascend all fourteen "eight-thousanders" (peaks over 8,000 metres (26,000 ft) above sea level). He is the author of at least 63 books (in German, 1970–2006), many of which have been translated into other languages.
Born in Brixen (Bressanone), Italy, Messner is a native speaker of German and also fluent in Italian. He grew up in Villnöß and spent his early years climbing in the Alps and fell in love with the Dolomites. His father, Josef Messner, was a teacher. He was also very strict and sometimes severe with Reinhold. Josef led Reinhold to his first summit at the age of five. Reinhold had eight brothers and one sister: he later climbed with his brother Günther and made Arctic crossings with his brother Hubert.
Felix Baumgartner (born 20 April 1969 in Salzburg, Austria) is an Austrian skydiver and a BASE jumper. He is renowned for the particularly dangerous nature of the stunts he has performed during his career. Baumgartner spent time in the Austrian military where he practiced parachute jumping, including training to land on small target zones.
He was born on 20 April 1969 in Salzburg, Austria.
In 1999 he claimed the world record for the highest parachute jump from a building when he jumped from the Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
On 31 July 2003, Baumgartner became the first person to skydive across the English Channel using a specially made fibre wing.
Baumgartner set the world record for the lowest BASE jump ever, from the hand of the Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio de Janeiro.
He became the first person to BASE jump from the completed Millau Viaduct in France on 27 June 2004[citation needed] and the first person to sky dive onto, then BASE jump from, the Turning Torso building in Malmö, Sweden on 18 August 2006.
Actors: Luis Trenker (actor), Ewerhard Engels (producer), Andrej Melita (composer), Reinhold Messner (actor), Peter Horn (composer), Hans Horn (editor), Ana Radica (miscellaneous crew), Andreas Nickel (director), Andreas Nickel (writer), Andreas Nickel (producer), Hans Kammerlander (actor), Lodur Tettenborn (editor), Wolfgang Gleixner (composer), Peter Habeler (actor), Helmut Messner (actor),
Genres: Adventure, Biography, Documentary, Drama,Actors: Miguel Herz-Kestranek (actor), Matthias Habich (actor), Sunnyi Melles (actress), Joseph Vilsmaier (producer), Karl Markovics (actor), Joseph Vilsmaier (director), Lena Stolze (actress), Gerald Alexander Held (actor), Gustavo Santaolalla (composer), Ezra Weisz (miscellaneous crew), Reinhard Klooss (writer), Jule Ronstedt (actress), Horst Kummeth (actor), Sven Severin (writer), Steffen Schroeder (actor),
Genres: Biography, Drama,Actors: Les Guthman (editor), Peter Strauss (actor), Les Guthman (producer), Les Guthman (writer), Les Guthman (director), Reinhold Messner (actor), Roy Milner (composer), Kenny Fields (editor), Ed Viesturs (actor), Chris Bonington (actor),
Plot: First documentary on Reinhold Messner, the world's greatest mountaineer, since Werner Herzog's "Dark Glow of the Mountains" in 1984. Messner looks back over his career with surprising candor and self-revelation. His solo climb of Mt. Everest without using bottled oxygen, in 1980, was described by Jon Krakauer as "a deed widely regarded as the greatest mountaineering feat of all time."
Keywords: mount-everest, mountain-climber, reinhold-messner