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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...