This book introduces us to Reinhold Messner, the first person to reach the summit of Everest solo and without supplemental oxygen.
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Moving Mountains will give your brain a work out and force you to reflect on your own career and goals. -- Deseret News, March 2, 2001
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Editor's Note: A Pearl of Great Price, by Ken Shelton
In creating this book of Lessons on Life and Leadership, I have been mesmerized by Reinhold Messner's strong personality and point of view. Like most genuine leaders, he transcends his field (mountain climber and expedition leader) and assumes a larger-than-life public image and persona. Privately, he remains a craftsman first, but his feats and his fame have also made him a spokesman. And in both arenas, he is a proven winner.
In business, attests Michael Eisner, CEO of Walt Disney Company, "the person with the strongest point of view usually wins the day." Messner proves the point.
Since meeting him at the International Book Fair in Frankfurt, Germany in 1999, I have been intrigued by his sagacity. It is one thing to have survived a few near-death experiences on mountains and in deserts and ice fields, but it is quite another to have learned so much and shared so deeply with the intent to benefit other people.
In creating this book, I have tried to be true to Messner in translation and intention. In recasting his ideas in a new context, some value is undoubtedly lost; hopefully, however, even more value is added in the process.
To assist you, the reader, in knowing and appreciating the man, Reinhold Messner, I have included a few of the tributes written by his colleagues; to assist you in reading with a sense of continuity, I have added section and chapter introductions; and to assist you in the assimilation and application of his ideas, I have added action items. Clearly, my intent is to make this book a powerful tool for personal, team, and organizational development.
I thank my son, Andrew Shelton, for bringing this project to us. I thank the German publishers, BLV, for their trust in our editing, for their faith in this project, and for their cordial and professional transfer of rights and photographs. I thank Doug Hagler and our translation team at Arthur International, our production designer Heidi Lawson, and our printer, Publishers Press.
If we have done our jobs well, you will be the big winner for making a wise investment of money, time, and effort in purchasing, reading, and acting on these powerful lessons--many of them coming to us at great price, one gratefully paid in the currency of persistence and pain by the author, legendary mountaineer and leader, Reinhold Messner.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Computers cannot translate books,
By MR MICHAEL S ROOKE (Wootton, Isle of Wight United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Moving Mountains: Lessons on Life and Leadership (Hardcover)
Rheinhold Messner has long been a hero of mine and his books have inspired me to take on challenges beyond my own dreams. This latest book is not in the previous mould. It has been translated from the original German edition entitled "Berg Versetzen: das Credo eines Grenzgangers". Unfortunately I can only guess that the editor of these collection of Messner's thoughts, Ken Shelton was a bit pushed for time and ran the oroginal german text through a computer translation programme and staight into print without proof reading. Some of the passages verge on gobbledegook and even crude spelling mistakes have found their way on to the printed page. Even worse, at the end of each chapter the editor has added patronising postscripts (action items) purportedly relating to the preceding text. In the end I could not bring myself to read these sections - they made me feel ill. How the respected Sir Chris Bonnington came to put his name to the list of testimonials at the beginning is beyond me. A great pity - all connected with this book have let themselves downMike Rooke, England
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
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Ascents and Epiphanies,
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This review is from: Moving Mountains: Lessons on Life and Leadership (Hardcover)
I rated this book somewhat higher than other reviewers have while agreeing that the prose style suffers from a poor translation and that many of Shelton's comments in the "Application and Action" sections seem superfluous. Nonetheless, Messner's achievements are breathtaking (no pun intended) and I thoroughly enjoyed sharing his personal account of what each achievement required. What was his primary motivation? "For my own part, I do not come to Everest or any other mountain because I have an ambition to climb it at any price. [Whenever he deemed necessary, Messner was prudent.] My primary desire is to get to know it, in all its magnitude, its difficulty and harshness. I am determined to forego the summit if I can't reach it by breathing equipment." I recently saw an IMAX film based on Shackleton's Antarctic expedition. Messner and two other prominent mountaineers appeared in the film, re-tracing a portion of the Shackleton saga. I am among those who find it almost impossible to grasp what people such as Shackleton and Messner somehow accomplished in what were (literally) life and death situations. Hence my appreciation of this book in which Messner discusses the specific details of preparations and then provides an eyewitness account of various ascents while sharing his personal thoughts and feelings about what he correctly characterizes as the "magnitude" of at all. I also learned a great deal about various do's and don'ts. The former never guarantee success but the latter invariably result in failure and perhaps tragedy. I read this book with substantial appreciation and also, I admit, a sense of wonder. Messner's heroism is obvious but also his humanity. He is a man, not a myth, and would be the first to stress that point. I am among countless others who view him as an exceptional man and are deeply grateful for what he has agreed to share with us.
5.0 out of 5 stars
This book improves my life!,
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This review is from: Moving Mountains: Lessons on Life and Leadership (Hardcover)
If you like mountains and wish to hear the the philosophy of one of the bravest mountaineer ever, read this book.
Reinhold shares straight from his gut his experience, small and to the point by the way. Strongly recommended!
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