Reinhold Messner -Tod am Nanga Parbat

Many men spend their entire lives fighting. It might be with a rifle in hand or for the price of a home. And it might be with the past and the legend. Ever since Reinhold Messner exposed Nanga Parbat in 1970, the trace of the cursed mountain has haunted him, a blemish on his snow-covered crest. There, on his first Himalayan expedition, when the first national ascents were becoming a matter of state and honor, and the business of mountaineering was being born amidst his nascent despair, his brother disappeared. The Diamir face exacted its cruel toll.