Der 7. Grad: Extremstes Bergsteigen [The Seventh Grade: Extreme Mountain Climbing]
Author(s):
Messner, Reinhold
Copyright: 1977, BLV, Munchen
Specifications: 2nd, 8vo, pp.156, 4 color & 18 bw photos, map, wraps
Condition: signed, wraps w/ publicity card glued to ffep & description clipping glue to title page, fine
This is Messner's fifth book and the first with accounts of his early Alpine climbs and training. He advocated the Seventh grade as a natural extension of the Sixth, which used to be the absolute limit of potential climbing. This was published in English in 1974 as ‘The Seventh Grade’. In German.
Neate M90.