“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 ...

Now 76 years old, explorer and mountaineer Reinhold Messner looks back on a career that’s one of the most extraordinary of the last century. With his most harrowing exploits, a political career and ...

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 ...

The peculiar greatness of Reinhold Messner is grounded in a pure form of selfishness. His pas de deux with the world’s most inhospitable wildernesses have always been about measuring his own might, ...

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.

Der Extrembergsteiger Reinhold Messner bricht mit 81 Jahren zu neuen Ufern auf. Auf dem Helm bei Sexten in Südtirol haben er und seine Frau Diane eine ehemalige Seilbahnstation umbauen lassen. Das ...

Kurz nach den Weihnachtstagen, noch bevor das neue Jahr begonnen hatte, postete Messner eine Serie an Fotos auf seinem Instagram-Kanal. Darauf zu sehen ist er bei Expeditionen in den Bergen. Auch ...