"Personal Everest"

“Rope teams are good on the mountain, not in politics”

Reinhold Messner (right) will soon be 80. He is still tireless, but does not want to be drawn into party political calculations (in the picture on the left, FPÖ leader Herbert Kickl).(Bild: Krone KREATIV/EXPA/Dominik Angerer, Christof Birbaumer, stock.adobe.com)

After the church, Herbert Kickl has now incurred the wrath of Reinhold Messner: The FPÖ leader compared an election victory with the mountaineering legend's summit victory without oxygen. Messner counters in the "Krone" with a comparison.

Mount Everest. The highest mountain peak in the world. 8848 meters. Herbert Kickl used the metaphor of the first ascent in 1978 for his narrative at the election kick-off in Graz on Saturday. Mountaineering legend Reinhold Messner and his colleague Peter Haberler (82) were the first people to make the ascent on May 8.