The Naked Mountain

Messner exorcises his grief and puts into perspective the sequence of events : he will return alone, without his brother, from his first ascent in the Himalayas, that of Nanga Parbat. A controversial story that experiences unexpected twists and fuels controversy.

It took thirty years for Messner to finally surrender ! Writing the most intimate, poignant of his books. Thirty years to exorcise grief, put together the puzzle, rebuild the founding drama of a lifetime, "the end and beginning of everything, the death of my brother," he writes. And put into perspective the implacable sequence of events : how two young boys join together, in the face of the severity of a father, to form an unwavering string. How this bond so strong the engage in an ideal, an expedition, the highest wall of the Himalayas, the ascent of Nanga Parbat, the" Grail " of the Germans, the murderous mountain. How, finally, at twenty-five, Messner will return alone, without his brother, from this ascent experienced as his "impossible survival".