The Dolomites (Italy): Monte Rite summer hike from Cibiana di Cadore to Messner Mountain Museum Dolomites
Each mountain in the Dolomites is like a piece of art. Reinhold Messner WHY HIKING MONTE RITE AND THE MESSNER MOUNTAIN MUSEUM DOLOMITES On 8th May 1978 the Italian montaineer and extreme climber, Reinhold Messner, together with his fellow climber, Peter Habeler reached 8,848 meters climbing Mount Everest without oxygen masks. A landmark date for world mountaineering that made them immortal and changed forever the history of climbing. About that experience Messner said he remembered one thing in particular: not the actual climbing, but the moment when his climbing companion bent over him and hugged him thankfully after reaching the top. The emotional story made a big impression on me, and triggered the desire to know more about that climber, the Messner Mountain Museum Dolomites on Monte Rite and a whole world unknown to me: that of the Dolomites' early mountaineering. WHERE IS MONTE RITE Summer - Monte Rite - one of the Dolomites' peaks rising up to 2,183 metres between the