“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 ...

Famed mountaineer Reinhold Messner has been left outraged after he was stripped of his two Guinness World Records - after an amateur expert claimed he had accidentally come up 15ft short of a ...

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 ...

Moments after the elation of reaching the summit of Nanga Parbat at sunset alongside his younger brother, Gunther, Reinhold Messner’s descent into despair began. At 8,126 metres, on top of the ...

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 ...