What is the point of view?

This story is principally told in the first person from Reinhold Messner's point of view, although other viewpoints enter in several ways. The most significant variation on Messner's first person is the regular interruption of the text with excerpts from Nena Holquin's diary. Also in first person, these entries provide interesting breaks from Messner's ideas and emotions because Holquin's thoughts are frequently much different than those of Messner concerning the same events.