Moments before a storm rolled in, Italian mountaineers Reinhold Messner and Hans Kammerlander charged up the blue alpine ice on the Northwest Face of 25,545-foot Annapurna to reach the summit ridge.

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"A tourist follows a trail, a mountaineer finds one." Outspoken, charismatic, daring and brilliant, few individuals hold the respect of the mountaineering community like Reinhold Messner. Widely ...

Moments after the elation of reaching the summit of Nanga Parbat at sunset alongside his younger brother, Gunther, Reinhold Messner’s descent into despair began. At 8,126 metres, on top of the ...

Reinhold Messner takes another step forward in the inheritance dispute with his family. In an interview, the 79-year-old mountaineering legend makes serious accusations against his son and three ...

For the past two years, there has been a breakdown in communication between mountaineering legend Reinhold Messner and his ...

Italian mountaineer Reinhold Messner is perhaps one of the world's last great adventurers: he has conquered the planet's highest peaks, crossed Antarctica and hunted for the elusive Yeti. That he has ...

Reinhold Messner, the world’s greatest mountaineer, turned 70 this week. To mark the occasion, I visited him at the Firmian Messner Mountain Museum in Bolzano, Italy. The castle there is one part of a ...

Fifteen years ago today, Ben Folds Five released their third album, titled The Unauthorized Biography of Reinhold Messner. It is by no means a masterpiece (though it is ultimately underrated), and had ...

Archive piece from 2016. Ed Caesar's book, The Moth and the Mountain, will be released on 12th November 2020. You can pre-order it here. Reinhold and Günther Messner were raised by the mountains. Born ...