“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 ...

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 ...

"I want to be remembered as the alpinist who failed more than anyone else on the 8000m peaks." If you have an idea about who Reinhold Messner is, based on an image of him portrayed (thanks also to ...

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 ...