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 ...

the great mountaineer Reinhold Messner, the over-commercialization of Mt. Everest, fame and what’s next for him. Below are edited excerpts from a longer conversation. Jim Clash: What do you ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

KATHMANDU, Nepal – Nepal’s government on Thursday honored two climbers who were the first to scale Mount Everest without ... Italian Reinhold Messner and Austrian Peter Habeler reached the ...

When Reinhold Messner and Peter Habeler trekked to Everest Base Camp in 1978, they were the only two people on Earth who believed they weren’t marching toward their own graves. Their goal was to ...

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 ...