"It's not crucial how old we get, but how we age."
Reinhold Messner's work is translated into Basque, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish and Turkish
"How many days do we have left?" A deeply personal exploration of our own mortality, one of life's greatest themes
Here, two generations and two different experiences of time come together. Reinhold Messner looks back on a life filled with achievements, losses, and insights. His wife, Diane Messner, complements these reflections with the perspective of someone in the prime of their life, yet who still confronts mortality on a daily basis. Both write about growing old and death, but also about being young and finding happiness, about grand expeditions and the small adventures of everyday life. The result is a book about the preciousness of our lifetime – and how to make the most of it with courage and curiosity.
"I have tried to make use of my time, to fill life with action, passion, and acceptance for both – life and death." — Reinhold Messner
"A lifetime isn't measured in years. It's measured in the moments we have truly lived." — Diane Messner
Diane Messner was born in Luxembourg in 1980 and grew up in Kayl, a small village in the southern part of the duchy. She co-founded Messner Mountain Heritage (MMH) with her husband, in order to carry traditional mountain climbing into the future and to hand on respectful treatment of nature as embodied by Reinhold Messner.
Reinhold Messner, born in 1944, is the most famous mountaineer and adventurer of our time. As an extreme mountain climber, pioneer and ‘Philosopher in Action’, he has constantly set new benchmarks. Messner was the first person to scale all fourteen eight-thousanders, including Mount Everest, which he was the rst person to climb alone without additional oxygen ( Everest Solo ). In 1989/90, he crossed Antarctica together with Arved Fuchs. As an author and filmmaker, Messner now fights for the sustained ecological treatment of nature, running mountain farms and develops his mountain museum, the Messner Mountain Museum with its various locations.
