Foreword: -- Prof. Sigmar Wittig -- Prof. Stefan Dech -- Reinhold Messner -- Christoph Ransmayr.
1. Europe -- Rüdiger Glaser / Mountain Building ; Zones of Continental Crimping -- Rüdiger Glaser / Danger Zones ; When Mountains Begin to Shake -- Rüdiger Glaser/ Glaciers' Memory in Ice -- Maurice Herzog: Mont Blanc -- Ralf-Peter Märtin / Mountains and Men.
2. Africa -- Rüdiger Glaser / Spirituality ; Seat of the Gods, Settings of Myths -- Oswald Oelz / Dying in the Snow above the Clouds :The Dangerous African Giants.
3. Asia -- Rüdiger Glaser / Mountain Climate : Steep Slopes, Wild Weather -- Christoph Ransmayr / At Phoksundo Lake : Portrait of a Lucky Man -- Reinhold Messner in Conversation with Sir Edmund Hillary.
4. Australasia & Antarctica -- Rüdiger Glaser / Antarctica : Earth's Refrigerator -- Stephen Venables / Domes of Ice : The Mountains of Antarctica.
5. North America -- Rüdiger Glaser / Protected Spaces : Room for Nature, Room for People -- Alexander Huber / El Corazon.
6. South America -- Rüdiger Glaser / Biodiversity : Endangered Populations -- Rüdiger Glaser / Elevation Belts : Layers of Forest, Rock, and Ice -- Reinhold Messner / On the Route of the Volcanoes.
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