Some alpinists scoffed at a German climber's quest to ascend Mount Everest in winter. Now he's closer than ever to reaching ...

The summit of Africa’s Mt. Kilimanjaro ... a number of elite climbers who have summited Everest without oxygen. The great Italian Reinhold Messner, American Ed Viesturs and Austria’s Peter ...

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 ...