Guinness Book cancels record held by mountaineering legend Messner oe24

Due to a reclassification of the “true peaks” in the Guinness Book, i.e. the highest points of the eight thousand meter mountains, Reinhold Messner has now lost an entry in the record book.

The Guinness Book of Records shocks the mountaineering world with its reclassification. To achieve a record climb of eight thousand, the “true summit”, i.e. the highest point, must be reached on foot and in a verifiable way. Everyone affected by the real peak reclassification has been reset. Reinhold Messner is missing as the record holder from the new Guinness Book 2024. Due to the new guidelines, Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner is no longer the first woman to climb all eight thousand meters without additional oxygen.

For years there has been controversy in the 8,000-strong mountaineering scene over the correct or incorrect identification of peaks. According to his research, the German mountain chronicler Eberhard Jurgalski assumes that many mountaineers turned around before reaching the true eight-thousander summit because they thought they had already reached their destination.

The list of all eight thousand

According to Jurgalski’s research, Reinhold Messner and Hans Kammerlander turned around at Annapurna (8,091m) in 1985, at a point on the summit that is 65 meters from the highest point. The South Tyrolean mountaineering legend climbed not all 14, but 13 eight thousand meters on Jurgalski’s 8,000 meter list.