"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 ...

"Reinhold Messner, My Life at the Limit," by Thomas Huetlin and Mountaineers Books. (mountaineersbooks.org) Reinhold Messner: My Life at the Limit MORE BY TERRY RICHARD Oregon, Washington may have ...

Now 76 years old, explorer and mountaineer Reinhold Messner looks back on a career that’s one of the most extraordinary of the last century. With his most harrowing exploits, a political career and ...

In part one and part two of this interview series with the great mountaineer Reinhold Messner, we discussed the commercialization of Mt. Everest, fear and his legacy. Here, the legend opens up about ...

Last week the first of my interview series with the world’s greatest mountaineer, Reinhold Messner, was published. In it, Messner discussed his amused disgust with the commercialization of Mt. Everest ...

Reinhold Messner would pass unnoticed on a British high street; but set him loose anywhere in central Europe and he'd almost certainly be mobbed. This isn't the simple question of national identity it ...

When we proposed climbing Everest without oxygen in 1978 people told us it wasn't possible, that we were risking our lives. They said we would lose our brains up there. When the first climbers on the ...

Italian mountaineer Reinhold Messner is perhaps one of the world's last great adventurers: he has conquered the planet's highest peaks, crossed Antarctica and hunted for the elusive Yeti. That he has ...