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 ...

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

On May 8, 1978, world-renowned alpinist Reinhold Messner and his frequent partner, Peter Habeler, became the first to summit Mount Everest (29,032 feet) without supplemental oxygen. It was a major ...

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 ...

Legendary climber Reinhold Messner has been speaking about the dangers of mountaineering, following the fatal mountain accident involving the German Olympic biathlete Laura Dahlmeier. "You follow your ...