Reinhold Messner to Laura Dahlmeier’s death
“A residual risk always remains”
At the end of July, Laura Dahlmeier died on a climbing tour in Pakistan. Extreme mountaineer Reinhold Messner openly over the fatal dangers.
Around two weeks after Laura Dahlmeier’s fatal rescue accident (1993-2025), the former extreme mountaineer Reinhold Messner (80) spoke in the program “Phoenix personally” about the dangers of climbing.
She was a very good, careful mountaineer, so he shocked the news. But rockfall, as Dahlmeier is said to have met, would be unpredictable. “The mountaineering in the wilderness, not climbing in the hall, contains great dangers. You can be careful, but there is always a residual risk,” said Messner.
He can understand Dahlmeier’s wish that they should not be recovered in a death. “The decision to leave a document in which she says: ‘In the event of an emergency, I do not want to be saved because it could endanger others,’ I find understandable,” says Messner. But this fact is difficult for the relatives. Messner never left such an order. The idea of corpses in the mountains was uncomfortable.
The 80-year-old states in the course of: “The mountaineering has lost its innocence.” With the Reinhold Messner House in the Dolomites, he wanted to work for “that traditional alpinism, ie the examination of nature mountain, does not revive with the Berg competition”.
Anyone who climbs in the wilderness takes the risk of dying
Messner philosophized in the recording: “It is not the art of the art of mountaineering. But it is only an art if I could really kill. Nobody climbs up there to get around, but if you don’t know that you could deal with it, then he did not understand what he is doing.” If you do not want to take this risk, you shouldn’t go mountaineering.
He admits: “Of course I start with security: ‘I have everything under control, nothing happens to me.'” Nevertheless, a residual risk for the climbers – and their environment. Mountaineers are “selfish relatives” when they followed their passion.
The former world-class biathlete Dahlmeier had an accident in a mountain accident in Pakistan at the end of July. According to the official statement, Dahlmeier was recorded by a stone around noon (local time) at 5,700 meters in the Karakorum Mountains. When the misfortune happened, she had been on the go with “her rope partner in the alpine style”. Her accompaniment immediately made an emergency call, but the salvage was initially difficult due to the extreme height, the seclusion of the area and weather conditions.
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Source: Stern
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