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‘Mr ^ mi ■ m v mm | CHAEL JORDAN IS TO BASKETBALL.” —JON KRAKAUER ACPL ITEM IHOL DISCARDED MESSNER Y QUEST FOR THE C9NFR9NTING THG HIMALAYAS' DGGPGST MYSTGRY ISBN 0-312-20394-2 $23.95 $3 6.9 ci CAN. a NIVGRSALLY A9KN9WLGDGGD AS THG GRGATGST living mountain climber—the first to reach the top of Mount Everest without the use of oxygen, the first to ascend all of the world’s highest peaks — Reinhold Messner is without peer in his knowledge of the Himalayas. He has scaled nearly every peak and descended nearly every valley in this region of towering danger, stark beauty, and endless challenge. Yet in 1986, during a solo climb in eastern Tibet, Messner confronted the greatest terror of his career— not a looming rockface or bottomless ice crevasse or murderous blizzard; this terror was alive. A creature had crossed his path, a creature of such proportions and agility that it defied reason and category. For the next few hours Messner saw it repeatedly, disap- pearing, reappearing, both chilling his marrow and thrilling him with the sudden yet burning conviction that he had found living proof of a legend. The legend of the yeti. My Quest for the Yeti gives us Messner’s heroic and riveting efforts to solve the riddle of the creature Westerners have called the “abominable snowman.” Ignoring the inevitable derision that greeted his announcement of the sighting, Messner became con- vinced that somewhere between tall tales told around campfires and intriguing but inconclusive tabloid photographs lay something of flesh and blood. He followed the centuries-old migratory routes of the Sherpa people through Nepal, India, Bhutan, and Tibet. Often alone and on foot — to avoid Chinese authorities—he explored labyrinths of fore its, ravines and precipices, scouring isolated monasteries and remote village marketplaces, seeking testimony, relics, footprints, and hoping he would again confront his {continued on the back flap) Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2017 with funding from Kahle/Austin Foundation https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780312203948 ~N ALSO BY REINHOLD MESSNER All 14 Eight Thousanders Everest: Expedition to the Ultimate To the Top of the World: Alpine Challenges in the Himalaya and Karakoram The Crystal Horizon: Everest—The First Solo Ascent Reinhold Messner, Free Spirit: A Climber’s Life Antarctica: Both Heaven and Hell Big Walls: History Routes, Experiences The Challenge K2 The Seventh Grade: Most Extreme Climbing Solo: Nanga Parbat CONFRONTING THE HIMALAYAS’ DEEPEST MYSTE RY Reinhold Messner TRANSLATED BY PETER CONSTANTINE ST. MARTIN’S PRESS W NEW YORK MY QUEST FOR THE YETI. Copyright © 1998 by S. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main. Translation copyright © 2000 by Peter Constantine. All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles or reviews. For information address St. Martin’s Press, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010. The excerpt from The Long Walk by Slavomir Rawicz is reprinted with permission from The Lyons Press. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Messner, Reinhold. [Yeti—Legende und Wirklichkeit. English] My quest for the yeti : confronting the Himalayas' deepest mystery / Remhold Messner; translated by Peter Constantine.— 1st ed. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references. ISBN 0-312-20394-2 1. Yeti. 2. Messner, Reinhold, 1944—Journeys—Himalaya Mountains Region. I. Title. QL89.2.Y4M4713 2000 001.944—dc21 99-055091 Book design by Kate Nichols First published in Germany under the title Yeti: Legende und Wirklichkeit by S. Fisher Verlag First Edition; April 2000 13579 10 8642
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