“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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Italian mountaineer Reinhold Messner signs the Golden Book of the state capital Erfurt. Jacob Schröter/dpa Legendary climber ...

For some, impossible is the point where dreams begin. Reinhold Messner is one such person. This Saturday, the legendary mountaineer will share some of his death-defying stories as the keynote speaker ...

The avalanche was a flash of snow. A beautiful but extremely dangerous explosion formed by the rock and ice detachments from the walls of Nanga Parbat, the mountain of destiny, the ninth highest on ...

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan A famed Italian mountaineer retrieved his brother's lost remains from Pakistan's perilous Nanga Parbat mountain, 35 years after their conquest of the peak ended in tragedy. Fellow ...

In Part 2 of our interview series with filmmaker Werner Herzog, we examine his close calls with death, the existence of a ...

An Italian mountaineer and explorer from South Tyrol whose astonishing feats on Everest and on peaks throughout the world have earned him the status of the greatest climber in history. He is renowned ...

Fitting that a museum dedicated to legendary mountaineer Reinhold Messner has been built into a mountain. The Architect's Newspaper reports that the Zaha Hadid-designed Messner Mountain Museum Corones ...

In 1989, the German polar explorer Arved Fuchs and the South Tyrolean mountaineer Reinhold Messner set out together to reach the South Pole on skis without sled dogs or motor technology and then cross ...