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A famed mountaineer who believed he had scaled the 14 highest peaks on the planet is furious after he was stripped of his Guinness World Records when a map enthusiast said he stopped five metres short of the true summit on one climb.
Messner (pictured), 79, from Tyrol in Italy, is considered to be one of the greatest climbers alive after being the first to scale the world s 14 mountains over 8,000 metres in 1986.