“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 ...

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 ...

New Zealander Rob Hall, at the 28,000-foot mark of Everest's Southeast Ridge in 1994, led Jon Krakauer's team up in 1996. A storm claimed the lives of eight climbers, including Hall's, on that widely ...

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 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, ...