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 ...

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

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 ...

Reinhold Messner starts all over again at the age of 80. As the South Tyrolean mountaineer announced on Instagram, he and his wife Diane are moving from the historic Juval Castle to a new home in ...

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 ...

“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 ...

Memorabilia from the first successful ascent of Mount Everest has been bought by a ... Italian mountaineer, explorer and author Reinhold Messner purchased the collection so it could be displayed ...