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 ...

“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 ...

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.

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 ...

The Netflix documentary follows a mountaineer’s unprecedented attempt to climb all of the world’s highest summits in seven months. The first words heard in “14 Peaks: Nothing Is Impossible” are “Don’t ...

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 YORK, NEW YORK - NOVEMBER 15: Jimmy Chin speaks onstage at the PANERAI x Jimmy Chin Collaborative Short Film Premiere on November 15, 2019 in New York City. (Photo by Craig Barritt/Getty Images ...

Climbing legend Reinhold Messner has signed on to Montblanc’s latest 1858 Geosphere watch, literally, with a limited edition of 262 pieces bearing his signature. The 42mm 1858 Geosphere Messner ...

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