On 8/06/2007 for fox sake wrote:
>Well the 1st person to complete the 7 summits (Dick Bass) was a wealthy
>person, he 'beat' Messner by about 7 months, if ever there was a case of
>daylight robbery this was it!
Old dickey boy was a conceptualist and an entrepreneur. Messner was busy ticking big hills and Dick decided to go for a selection of hills with a comparably modest magnitude.
I don't doubt for a second who was the better climber, but Dick gets the trophy for the seven summits, hands down |