First ascent of Manaslu without supplementary oxygen
- Who
- Reinhold Messner
- What
- First
- Where
- Nepal
- When
- 25 April 1972
Reinhold Messner (Italy) climbed Manaslu in the Nepalese Himalayas without supplementary oxygen on 25 April 1972. At 8,163 m (26,781 ft), Manaslu is the eighth highest mountain in the world; it was first ascended in 1956, by a Japanese team.
Messner climbed the then-unknown south face.