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Reinhold Messner
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Italian mountaineer (born 1944) who completed the first oxygenless ascent of Everest in 1978 with Peter Habeler and became the first person to climb all fourteen eight-thousanders in 1986. Messner's philosophy transformed modern mountaineering by proving that alpine-style ascents of the highest peaks were humanly possible.