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Red Rocket on Nanga Parbat

I've never been a big reader but the books of the Mountain Film Festival, I bought this book in a week I have read it and I must say that I really liked the other books I think that light of this kind.

On 27 June 1970, two brothers, Reinhold and Günther Messner made the first ascent of the Rupal Face of Nanga Parbat, the wall of rock and ice with its 4500 meters is the largest of the Earth. But the descent down the other side, unknown, which ends in the Diamir valley, has a tragic ending: the death of Günther, overwhelmed by an avalanche. The expedition leader shall make efforts to overlook the real circumstances in which the disaster occurred. Reinhold Messner's account of the dramatic odyssey, conceived as a screenplay, is prohibited, as the expedition leader had done to all participants sign a document stating that they will not publish anything about the shipment. The title was Die rote Rakete (The Rocket red), just as the deceptive light signal that should have pointed to the brothers Messner expected development of the weather.


For decades, Reinhold Messner was the victim of smear campaigns, is accused of having sacrificed his younger brother in the name of his personal ambition, incredibly accusations that does not subside when the Nanga Parbat returns where the mortal remains of Günther Messner said he had to be, and the version of Reinhold Messner is confirmed by the courts. Today, forty years from the heroic and tragic enterprise, Red Rocket on Nanga Parbat finally sees the light, with a new preface by the author and wonderful photographs.

"The attempt to save my brother on Nanga Parbat - liked, experienced and suffered from myself almost to death - is one of the most difficult experiences that life has imposed a gesture of despair that I experienced not as a duty but as a matter of course. If Michi Herrligkoffer Anderl and had acknowledged their error in launching the signal and to attribute the wrong meaning to the "red rocket" and had described the tragedy as it happened, there would be no confrontation. Soon, however, returned to the civilized world, the expedition leader Herrligkoffer you invented the story that I had acted for personal ambition, that I would let my brother died at the fork and Merkl - motivated by the desire to gain fame - I just fell from the long Diamir side. And this statement only, resa pubblica senza alcuna motivazione a sostegno e mai ritirata, ha alimentato il conflitto che ormai da quarant’anni cova sotto la cenere."