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 ...

“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 ...

About two weeks after the fatal mountain accident of Laura Dahlmeier (1993-2025), former extreme mountaineer Reinhold Messner (80) spoke about the dangers of climbing on the show "phoenix persönlich".

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.

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 ...

Dec. 27—Italian mountaineering legend Reinhold Messner spent decades straddling the line between life and death at Earth's lofty limits, relying on his supreme skills and a fair share of luck to cling ...

Everything these days seems to revolve around records - the fastest, the highest, the deepest, the toughest. To many, the ultimate keeper of such data is the Guinness Book Of World Records. One of the ...

In Part 2 of our interview series with German filmmaker Werner Herzog, we examine his close calls with death, his thoughts in the existence of a supreme being and mountaineer Reinhold Messner. In Part ...