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...lump the great mountaineer Reinhold Messner together with reckless rappellers and people who pogo off El Capitan insults the entire climbing community...
...past in a more difficult manner or to invent stunts whose nature is often, necessarily, more than somewhat bizarre. Thus we see the attempt by Mountaineer Tabin's group to climb Everest by an approach once thought foolhardy, and the astonishing accomplishment of Italian Superclimber Reinhold Messner three years ago of reaching Everest's summit alone and without oxygen...
...Reinhold Messner, 38, the solo climber of Everest, has paid a price for his fame as the world's strongest expedition climber. He talks with the rocklike confidence of all the mountain world's hard men, saying, for instance, that Everest by the traditional Hillary-Tenzing route is "a good holiday, but not really challenging." Messner has never used oxygen in his life, he says with a trace of pride. But he offers freely the opinion that his memory has been dulled by long periods of oxygen deprivation. There have been other prices. His brother Gunther died...
...CLOUD OVER HIROSHIMA, by Burt Hirschfeld (Julian Messner; $3.95). The story of the atomic bomb, told with accuracy and excitement...
Finding that 4% is like betting on a two-year-old maiden race. Two publishers turned down the manuscript of a Gilmanton, N.H., housewife named Grace Metalious before Publisher Julian Messner gambled...