Italian mountaineer Reinhold Messner, left, poses next to a Green Party's election poster on top of Germany's highest mountain, the Zugspitze, southern Germany, on Tuesday, Sept. 6, 2005 during a photo call of an election campaign event to start at the 2.600 meters (1.6 miles) altitude location. Messner, who has been a delegate of the Italian Green party in the European Parliament, supports the Bavarian Green party in their campaign for the German general elections on Sept. 18, 2005. Slogan on poster reads