Messner Returning To Search For Brother's Body
Reinhold Messner is planning to return to Nanga Parbat and locate his brother's body to disprove allegations that he left him to die on the mountain
Posted: 18 June 2003
by Jon
Newspapers are carrying reports that legendary Italian mountaineer
Reinhold Messner is planning to return to Nanga Parbat in an effort
to recover his brother's body and end accusations that he left him to
die on the mountain in 1970.
The brothers climbed the mountain successfully, but Messner says
Gunther Messner developed altitude sickness during the descent and
was engulfed by an avalanche on the Diamir Face of the mountain.
Allegations by fellow expedition members that Messner had in fact
abandoned his sibling before summiting resurfaced last year in a new
book by a fellow climber and clearly dismayed Messner, who is now
58.
He reportedly plans to use metal detectors in an effort to find
his brother's body, relying on his crampons to trigger the device and
confirm once and for all that he is where he claims he was
avalanched.
More info in this Guardian
story and more detailed in the Telegraph.
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