In Part 1 of our interview series with American mountaineer Ed Viesturs, we discussed the Guinness World Record folks stripping the great Reinhold Messner of his long-held title of first to summit all ...

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 ...

“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 ...

At age 77, after having pushed the limits of what a human being can physically achieve, Reinhold Messner looks back at a life lived at the edge of life and death, and turns philosophical about the art ...