After the death of his brother on Nanga Parbat in 1970, Reinhold Messner was confronted with serious accusations for decades.

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.

"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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Italian mountaineer Reinhold Messner is perhaps one of the world's last great adventurers: he has conquered the planet's highest peaks, crossed Antarctica and hunted for the elusive Yeti. That he has ...

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 ...

Archive piece from 2016. Ed Caesar's book, The Moth and the Mountain, will be released on 12th November 2020. You can pre-order it here. Reinhold and Günther Messner were raised by the mountains. Born ...

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 ...