History is repeating itself in the world of controversial sports records.

We take a look at when the best time to climb Everest is, why it is that the climbing window is so short and why summer and winter ascents are so rare ...

In Part 1 of our interview series with American mountaineer Ed Viesturs, we discussed the Guinness World Record folks stripping the great Reinhold ... of Mt. Everest. So far this year, the ...

Outspoken, charismatic, daring and brilliant, few individuals hold the respect of the mountaineering community like Reinhold ... Where climbing Everest was concerned, Messner was quoted as saying ...

Reaching the top of the world and returning to London within a week without so much as stopping for a coffee in Kathmandu ...

“I truly believe that Reinhold Messner was the first person to climb ... conga line and crowding that now occur every year on Mount Everest and other 8000ers. It’s a fast-and-light style ...

Reinhold Messner is one such person ... The first person to summit Mount Everest without supplemental oxygen. The first person to summit Everest solo. The first person to summit all 14 of the ...

The next day, while Reinhold was picking his way ... open image in gallery Messner points to a photograph of Mount Everest after his unprecedented solo ascent without supplementary oxygen, in ...

The use of acclimatization methods to expedite expeditions lies at the center of a current discussion on Mount Everest ... invention and evolution. “Reinhold Messner goes so far as to say ...

It’s hard to imagine how monumental Britain’s successful summit of Mount Everest was in 1953 ... the first American to summit in 1963; Reinhold Messner the first to summit without supplemental ...

A drone view shows Mount Everest along with Khumbu Glacier and ... Park in the Himalayas of northeast Nepal every year. Reinhold Messner and Peter Habeler were the first men to summit Everest ...