Free Spirit: A Climber's Life.

Seattle, Washington:: Mountaineers, 1991.. Hardbound . BINDING/CONDITION: black binding; there's a small piece of tape on the half-title page, otherwise a Very Good book, with a Very Good dust jacket; the jacket is price clipped.. small 4to (10 inches tall) . Index. Photo endpapers. Description: Includes a double-sided map frontis, many photographic illustrations, including several in color. Reinhold Messner's climbing autobiography puts his whole career in perspective, spanning the early Dolomite winter first ascents and solos that set the benchmarks for the 'sixties, moves on through his record-making ascents of all fourteen 8000-metre peaks and his seven summits of the seven continents, to end reflectively with a turning away from the overcrowded Alps and eight-thousanders to find climbing fulfillment in the remoter parts of the world and in crossing the wastes of Antarctica.