Celebrity status No recent obituary on file

Has Reinhold Messner died?

It appears not. Reinhold Messner seems very much alive, currently at age 81.

Reinhold Messner

First to climb all 14 eight-thousanders, first to climb all 14 eight-thousanders without supplemental oxygen, and first to climb Mount Everest without supplemen

Born September 17, 1944

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