LIFESTYLE MUSÉE MESSNER A SOUHAITÉ UN LIEU QUI FAIT PASSER DES TÉNÈBRES À LA LUMIÈRE, COMME UNE ASCENSION. Topping the crest IN THE DOLOMITES, THE RENOWNED ALPINIST REINHOLD MESSNER HAS OPENED THE SIXTH BRANCH OF HIS MESSNER MOUNTAIN MUSEUM, WITH ARCHITECTURE BY ZAHA HADID. A fiery gaze, a mane of wavy hair… Reinhold Mess- ner is a larger-than-life figure, a man who has lived his dreams. The mountains are his passion. Born in the South Tyrol region of Italy, he became the first person to conquer all 14 of the world’s hi gh- est peaks, the “eight-thousanders” (higher than 8,000 meters/26,000 feet) in the Himalayas. And he climbed them all without supplemental oxygen. At the entrance of the newest branch of the Messner Mountain Museum (MMM) is an oxygen tank labeled “Not used by Messner,” a ladder from his Himalayan expeditions…On top of aridge in the Plan de Corones (Kronplatz) ski area in the Dolomites, the building is a shrine to its founder’s drive and dedication, punctuated with quotations by Messner and his mentors. Each one is the fruit of a challenge met,the echo of a testofhuman limits. As Kronplatz director and MMMpartner Andrea del Frari explains, Messner wanted the path through the museum to proceed from dak to light,r like an ascent. Once inside, visitors ener a cave-t likepassageway through the rock. At the other end are three huge windowsoverlookin geth la nd- scape, like three eyes contemplating the majesty of the Dolomites, “The most beauifultmountains in the world,” Messner says. The exhibition retraces 250years of alpinism. As itsoriginator reminds us, “The discipline was born in the Alps—it’s not called ‘Himalayanism’ or ‘Rockymountainism’!” As it turned out, there was no summit meeting between the project’s two main protagonists. The MMM Corones was the last building to be designed Y ALLER :SÜDTIROL,site de tourisme. suedtirol.info by the late architect Zaha Hadid, and the final addi- tion to Messner’s collection. What is the message SE LOGER : Hôtel WINKLER, à 1 km de la télécabine donnant accès that it conveys? No doubt the one that sums up its au MMM. Santo Stefano 28a, San Lorenzo, Italie. winklerhotels.com founder’s life: “I wanted to climb up high, and look SKIER : PLAN DE CORONES/ KRONPLATZ,élu meilleur domaine skiable down deep into myself.” des Alpes en 2018. kronplatz.com/en EXPLORER : les DOLOMITESde Messner, avec le guide de montagne Simon A 2275 m, les vues du musée “reconstituent les Kehrer (ski de randonnée, escalade…) Tél. +39 389 422 3062. images de mon enfance : le Ortler et le Pilier du Mezzo del Sasso di Monte Croce – l’ascension MESSNER MOUNTAIN MUSEUM (MMM), une collection de six musées. la plus difficile de ma vie – et les glaciers de la messner-mountain-museum.it Vallée Aurina” (Reinhold Messner). AIR FRANCE MADAME / 191