Reinhold Messner: My Life At The Limit

A somewhat interesting book about Messner, who is perhaps the greatest mountaineer of all time. It's structured as a series of interviews about different chapters of his life (because of that, the climbing discussion ends pretty early in the book at ~30-40% in). I found it interesting to see how Messner processes the common emotions you get while on a risky adventure (e.g., having to keep working when you don't know what to do and are facing substantial risk, including, in Messner's case, death).

Messner comes across as a climbing genius but also as a very hard partner. Therefore, this book spends a lot of time rehashing polemics from his expeditions that are probably of little interest to most readers.