Mountaineer loses Guinness world record

Will Taylor (@WillTaylor_news) LBC, 9/26/23; CC Liu, Sheldon S. (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

This is Bull Scheiße!

Legendary mountain climber stripped of Guinness World Records after map enthusiast claims he stopped 5 meters short of real summit. Westerner Reinhold Messner has been stripped of his Guinness World Records.

The famed mountaineer who believed he had scaled the 14 highest peaks on the planet is furious after he was stripped of his Guinness World Records when a map enthusiast said he stopped five meters short of the true summit on one of those climbs, namely, Annapurna.

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  Annapurna mountain, Nepal (Alamy)

  [However, Buddhist Sherpa guides and porters did make it to the top of the highest mountains and have been doing so for a long time without the glory. Without them, no Westerner would be making it to the top of Mt. Everest, Annapurna, or K-2, allegedly the highest summit in the world, even taller than Everest.]

Reinhold Messner mad at Guinness Book folks

Reinhold Messner was recognized as having been the first man to climb the world's 8,000-meter summits. But Eberhard Jurgalski, after using German space agency imagery, has said he fell just short of reaching the actual peak of Annapurna in the Himalayas when he climbed it in 1985.

After a decade of work, Jurgalski believes he stopped five meters away, and that mountaineers failed to properly complete the summits on three different peaks. More