Mountain climber retrieves brother's remains 35 years later Accused of abandoning sick sibling during descent

From: Chicago Sun-Times | Date: September 5, 2005| Author: SADAQAT JAN | Copyright information

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- A famed Italian mountaineer retrieved his brother's lost remains from Pakistan's perilous Nanga Parbat mountain, 35 years after their conquest of the peak ended in tragedy.

Fellow members of the 1970 expedition have accused Reinhold Messner of having abandoned his younger brother Gunther, then 24, after reaching the summit of the world's ninth highest peak, when Gunther was suffering altitude sickness.

Messner went on to make a solo ascent of Mt. Everest, a...

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