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La mia vita controvento
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The living legend of mountaineering tells his story on the occasion of his 80th birthday The constant in Reinhold Messner's life is the headwind: whether it's the storms of the South Pole or the ice of Greenland, while he climbs alone on narrow ridges, or on the steepest summit walls. But above all it is in the so-called civilized world that Messner found himself against the wind, due to the often ferocious criticism that always accompanied his exploits. In the autobiography he wrote on the occasion of his eightieth birthday, he looks back and reconstructs his vision of the world, retracing the actions he carried out and the reactions he provoked. Anyone expecting a Messner satisfied by an exceptional life and at peace with others and with himself will be disappointed. This book pulsates with the excitement of someone who was the first to climb the eight-thousanders, who designed elegant and impossible routes, who redefined the scale of mountaineering difficulties, and who expressed a strong political and environmentalist passion. And at the same time he seethes with indignation against those who have tried to silence his truths, accused him of having sacrificed the lives of others to his ambition, criticized his nonconformism. In "My life against the wind", Messner does not spare anyone, not even himself, but recognizes that it is precisely from all the obstacles he has had to face in life that he has drawn and draws his strength and the perseverance to always move forward. Because, as he says, it is "the contrary wind that makes your wings grow
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