The mountains in the Himalayas are very tall. Some of them are more than 8,000 meters high.
In 1953, Edmund Hillary was the first man to climb Mount Everest, the tallest mountain in the world. This was a very special moment. It’s very hard to climb that high.
Other people also wanted to do amazing things in the Himalayas. Something special happened in 1986.
On October 16, newspapers around the world wrote about Reinhold Messner from Italy. He reached the top of Lhotse, the fourth tallest mountain in the world.
There are 14 mountains taller than 8,000 meters, and Reinhold Messner climbed all of them. Lhotse was the last one he needed to finish. Now, his goal was complete. He became the best climber in the world.
It took him 16 years to climb all 14 mountains.
The first mountain he climbed, Nanga Parbat, was also the saddest. He climbed it with his younger brother, Gunther. But on the way down, the weather got very bad, and the brothers got separated. Messner came down after 6 days, very tired and cold. Seven of his toes had to be removed because of the cold. Sadly, his brother Gunther died.
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