According to Messner, 52 years after the death of Reinhold Messner’s brother Günther on Pakistan’s 8,125-meter Nanga Parbat Mountain, the dead man’s second shoe was discovered at the foot of the Diamir Glacier. “The locals have found the second shoe. I was only sent a photo,” Messner said on Thursday. Messner had previously posted the photo on Instagram.
According to Messner, the mountain shoe should belong to Günther’s corpse. He will pick up the shoe himself and take it home, but he is in no rush, said the 77-year-old former extreme mountaineer. “I will definitely go again in the coming years.”
He also wants to visit the schools he has founded in the Himalayan region. He had already visited the place to commemorate his brother with the family. “It’s never over, it’s always a sad, tragic story.”
The first shoe was found in 2005
According to Messner, a bone was found in 2004 at an altitude of 4,300 meters. In 2005 Messner reported on finding Günther’s first shoe on the same glacier.
The shoe – at the time a custom product for the expedition – now stands in one of Messner’s museums at Sigmundskron Castle near Bozen in a chapel of sorts that is filled with photos of mountaineers who had an accident.
Wild quarrel between Messner and ex-comrades
About 20 years ago, a violent dispute broke out between Messner and ex-comrades over the circumstances of Günther Messner’s death, which was also argued in court. It dealt with the claim of insufficient help and the question of where and how Messner’s brother actually died.
Messner had always emphasized that after reaching the top, out of necessity, he descended with his brother on the other side of the mountain. The places where bones and the first shoe were found prove that. The finding of the second shoe is now just “confirmation of confirmation”.
Source: Krone
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