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This week, the Bergwelt magazine looks back at the first South Tyrolean Greenland expedition in 1967 and is travelling with the climber Simon Messner. He is a dropout, mountaineer and mountain farmer: Simon Messner has chosen a very unique style of alpinism: preferably in less developed terrain without any claim to top performance. The microbiologist also manages the Oberortlhof on the side. Not an easy legacy but an exciting challenge. Then we look back at the first South Tyrolean Greenland expedition in 1967. At a time when there was hardly any information about these wild mountain and ice landscapes, four young South Tyroleans were the first to climb over 30 completely unknown peaks in the Greenland ice sheet.