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But for his entire career (Reinhold Messner) he has been mesmerized by the obscure peak that was his first major summit, where he lost his brother under circumstances that have been debated ever since.
Messner to Produce His Brother's Boot
Last summer, the headless corpse of Reinhold Messner's brother Günther emerged out of the snowmelt on Pakistan's Nanga Parbat. After 35 years of nasty arguments and accusations, would the discovery finally reveal who was to blame for his death and solve one of mountaineering's greatest mysteries?
Discovery of remains dashes claims brother was left to die 35 years ago
The decades-old mystery over the fate of Günther Messner - the lost brother of the mountaineering legend Reinhold Messner - was resolved yesterday after DNA tests on a smuggled piece of big toe.
A decades-old mountaineering scandal has bubbled back up to the surface: did climbing legend Reinhold Messner—who made his name by being the first to climb all 14 of the world's highest mountains—leave his brother Günther to die on Nanga Parbat, in Pakistan, in May 1970?
Messner to Produce His Brother's Boot