Orte, die ich lebte, bevor ich starb (First Edition, Signed)

A signed picture-memoir by the Swiss physician and mountaineer Oswald Oelz, with the signature of Reinhold Messner, one of his expedition companions.

Oelz is a physician and mountaineer, and he completed the Seven Summits as only the third person to do so. In this picture memoir he recalls trips across continents and decades with friends including Precht, Eisendle, Bösch, Messner and Fankhauser. Destinations include Bhutan, Bali, Socotra and Oman. The short texts and many photographs are laced with humour and self-irony, and the book also deals with the deaths of more than two dozen mountain friends, with his patients, and with his support for assisted dying. A reviewer for the Alpenverein München & Oberland found the book curious and relaxed in tone. Messner appears in the book as a companion rather than as its author, but he has signed this copy alongside Oelz.

First edition, signed by both Oelz and Reinhold Messner to the title in blue and black ink. Large quarto. 240pp., with some 325 colour illustrations. Blue cloth boards, lettered in white to the spine, in the original pictorial dust jacket. Near fine in like dust jacket. A few minor imperfections here and there, otherwise clean and bright throughout. Chessler Books seller’s sticker to the lower rear pastedown. W. Williams blind stamp to the lower title. Text in German.

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Catalogue Number: HH000883