Moving Mountains: Lessons on Life and Leadership (Hardcover)

by Reinhold Messner (Author)

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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

Product Description
What thoughts and feeling occupy us when we face our highest personal mountains? How can we be dedicated in pursuit of our goals, despite daunting hardships? This inspiring book is the best of best-selling author Reinhold Messner, the first person to reach the summit of Everest solo and without supplemental oxygen. Organized around his lessons on life and leadership, this book outlines the secrets to overcoming failure, pushing the limits of the feasible, and achieving lasting success.

Like most genuine leaders, Messner 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 areas, he is a proven winner. 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.

Moving Mountains describes the lessons Messner learned through a life of breaking through mental and physical barriers. From their reading of the book, individuals, teams, and organizations will learn the skills necessary to pick themselves up and move beyond their trials and failures so that they too can reach unparalleled heights of success.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 250 pages
• Publisher: Executive Excellence Publishing; 1st edition (March 15, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1890009903
• ISBN-13: 978-1890009908
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.3 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 2.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,713,527 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Computers cannot translate books, May 20, 2001

By	MR MICHAEL S ROOKE (Wootton, Isle of Wight United Kingdom) - See all my reviews

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 down

Mike Rooke, England

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Ascents and Epiphanies, July 13, 2001

By	Robert Morris (Dallas, Texas) - See all my reviews (TOP 50 REVIEWER)    (REAL NAME)

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.