We look into the incredible life of Reinhold Messner, ... In doing so, he became the first person to climb Everest solo. His adventures on the world’s 8,000-meter peaks continued until 1986, ...

Photo: Steffen Kugler/Newscom 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.

But here, in Part 1, Chin tackles Nims Purja’s world record ascent of the world’s 14 8,000-meter peaks in under seven months, the great mountaineer Reinhold Messner, the over-commercialization ...

Mountain man: the miraculous life of Reinhold Messner, the world’s most controversial climber. He was the brash, brilliant and ego-fuelled climber who first scaled Everest without oxygen ...

However, it’s likely that critics of the rampant adventure tourism present on Everest today, such as the great Reinhold Messner, would refute the claim that May is the “best” time to climb ...

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.

'Reinhold Messner: My Life at the ... first to summit Mount Everest without oxygen, first to summit Mount Everest solo and to cross Antarctica on foot and also the two great deserts of Asia, ...

Reinhold Messner, one of the first two men to summit Mount Everest without supplementary oxygen, ... The first person to summit Everest solo.

Next on Messner and Habeler’s hit list was Everest, which they successfully climbed in 1978 and again, without supplementary oxygen. This proved to the world that such a climb was possible.

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.