Allegories

• SPIEGEL Bestseller List since its publication
• Several talk show appearances planned
• Contains unpublished photos 
• Reinhold Messner`s books have been translated into numerous languages

Reinhold Messner writes about the key to his successes: the ability, to cast off ballast and to renounce instead of consume

Reinhold Messner writes in Allegories about what his successes consist of: the ability to unload useless baggage, doing without instead of consuming. What led him out of the narrow confines of a farming village in the Dolomites onto the highest summit in the world? What motivates him today? Which values accompanied him on his journey, and what is the decisive role played by renunciation? But Messner does not only pose this question with regard to his own life. Questions that affect us all are at the heart of this work: sustainability, climate change, and generational justice. How does he deal with aging, and what do death, religion, and spirituality mean to him? Messner also doesn't avoid very private issues, speaking openly about crises and disappointments, separations and fresh starts in love. He assigns an important role to his wife Diane, who has her own opinion of the famous man - and speaks of it here for the first time.