“A tourist follows a trail, a mountaineer finds one.” Outspoken, charismatic, daring and brilliant, few individuals hold the respect of the mountaineering community like Reinhold Messner. Widely ...

Fifteen years ago today, Ben Folds Five released their third album, titled The Unauthorized Biography of Reinhold Messner. It is by no means a masterpiece (though it is ultimately underrated), and had ...

Moments before a storm rolled in, Italian mountaineers Reinhold Messner and Hans Kammerlander charged up the blue alpine ice on the Northwest Face of 25,545-foot Annapurna to reach the summit ridge.

Reinhold Messner, the world’s greatest mountaineer, turned 70 this week. To mark the occasion, I visited him at the Firmian Messner Mountain Museum in Bolzano, Italy. The castle there is one part of a ...

Now 76 years old, explorer and mountaineer Reinhold Messner looks back on a career that’s one of the most extraordinary of the last century. With his most harrowing exploits, a political career and ...

The avalanche was a flash of snow. A beautiful but extremely dangerous explosion formed by the rock and ice detachments from the walls of Nanga Parbat, the mountain of destiny, the ninth highest on ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Literary tracker of timepieces and luxury goods. It was two years ago in 2018 that Swiss watch brand Montblanc introduced its ...

Opel has launched its all-new marketing campaign for its recently released Opel Vivaro van starring world-famous explorer, outdoorsman and mountaineer Reinhold Messner. The German-language commercial ...

The peculiar greatness of Reinhold Messner is grounded in a pure form of selfishness. His pas de deux with the world’s most inhospitable wildernesses have always been about measuring his own might, ...

Climbing legend Reinhold Messner has signed on to Montblanc’s latest 1858 Geosphere watch, literally, with a limited edition of 262 pieces bearing his signature. The 42mm 1858 Geosphere Messner ...