Mountaineer Has World Records Stripped in a Spat Over Just 15 Feet
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Mountaineer Has World Records Stripped in a Spat Over Just 15 Feet.
Famed mountaineer Reinhold Messner has been left outraged after he was stripped of his two Guinness World Records - after an amateur expert claimed he had accidentally come up 15ft short of a Himalayan summit.
Messner, 79, from South Tyrol in Italy, is considered to be one of the greatest climbers alive after being the first to scale the world's 14 mountains over 8,000 metres (26,247ft), which earned him a Guinness World Record title in 1986.
But after self-proclaimed map enthusiast Eberhard Jurgalski said Messner was actually 5m (15ft) short of the peak when he climbed Annapurna, Nepal, the Italian was stripped of the title.
Messner furiously responded that Jurgalski was 'clueless' and 'not a real expert' after the amateur expert published his findings.
Jurgalski had used photos, route descriptions by climbers as well as satellite data to come up with the new peak of Annapurna at 8,091m (26,545ft) and made similar adjustments to other summit heights.
This severely whittled down the list of those who conquered all 14 peaks from 44 to just four people credited with the achievement.
Guinness World Records agreed with Jurgalski's findings and reviewed records held by Messner and other elite climbers based on the old summit calculations.
'Many climbers — usually through no fault of their own — stopped before reaching the summit,' the organisation said in a statement.
The summit at Annapurna would have been 65m (213ft) further ahead than Messner's peak, Jurgalski concluded.
The re-calculation of the peaks also meant losing another title for Messner, who was honoured by Guinness World Records as the only climber to ascend all 14 peaks of the 8,000ers - as the climbing community refer to the highest mountains - without using oxygen tanks.
Instead, Messner is now only listed as a 'legacy' record holder for his impressive feats.
The title for being the first to reach all 14 summits is now held by American climber Edmund Viesturs, who completed the challenge in 2005.
When Jurgalski published his calculations on his website 8000ers.com last year, German-speaking Messner and other elite climbers from all over the world disputed his claims.
'He has no idea. He's not an expert. He just got the mountains confused. Of course we made it to the peak,' he told the German press agency DPA.
He added about losing his record titles: 'I don't care if my name is in the Guinness World Records book. You can't take a record I never claimed away from me.'
'Also, mountains change. Almost 40 years have passed, if someone has climbed Annapurna it was certainly Hans and I. No one who knows anything about mountaineering would question our feat... Jurgalski in fact knows nothing about it,' he
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Mountaineer Has World Records Stripped in a Spat Over Just 15 Feet.
Famed mountaineer Reinhold Messner has been left outraged after he was stripped of his two Guinness World Records - after an amateur expert claimed he had accidentally come up 15ft short of a Himalayan summit.
Messner, 79, from South Tyrol in Italy, is considered to be one of the greatest climbers alive after being the first to scale the world's 14 mountains over 8,000 metres (26,247ft), which earned him a Guinness World Record title in 1986.
But after self-proclaimed map enthusiast Eberhard Jurgalski said Messner was actually 5m (15ft) short of the peak when he climbed Annapurna, Nepal, the Italian was stripped of the title.
Messner furiously responded that Jurgalski was 'clueless' and 'not a real expert' after the amateur expert published his findings.
Jurgalski had used photos, route descriptions by climbers as well as satellite data to come up with the new peak of Annapurna at 8,091m (26,545ft) and made similar adjustments to other summit heights.
This severely whittled down the list of those who conquered all 14 peaks from 44 to just four people credited with the achievement.
Guinness World Records agreed with Jurgalski's findings and reviewed records held by Messner and other elite climbers based on the old summit calculations.
'Many climbers — usually through no fault of their own — stopped before reaching the summit,' the organisation said in a statement.
The summit at Annapurna would have been 65m (213ft) further ahead than Messner's peak, Jurgalski concluded.
The re-calculation of the peaks also meant losing another title for Messner, who was honoured by Guinness World Records as the only climber to ascend all 14 peaks of the 8,000ers - as the climbing community refer to the highest mountains - without using oxygen tanks.
Instead, Messner is now only listed as a 'legacy' record holder for his impressive feats.
The title for being the first to reach all 14 summits is now held by American climber Edmund Viesturs, who completed the challenge in 2005.
When Jurgalski published his calculations on his website 8000ers.com last year, German-speaking Messner and other elite climbers from all over the world disputed his claims.
'He has no idea. He's not an expert. He just got the mountains confused. Of course we made it to the peak,' he told the German press agency DPA.
He added about losing his record titles: 'I don't care if my name is in the Guinness World Records book. You can't take a record I never claimed away from me.'
'Also, mountains change. Almost 40 years have passed, if someone has climbed Annapurna it was certainly Hans and I. No one who knows anything about mountaineering would question our feat... Jurgalski in fact knows nothing about it,' he