Outspoken, charismatic, daring and brilliant, few individuals hold the respect of the mountaineering community like Reinhold Messner. Widely regarded as the greatest mountaineer of all time ...

Günther Messner really did perish during the descent of the Nanga Parbat Diamir Face, as his brother Reinhold has always sustained. Günther Messner really did descend Nanga Parbat's Diamir Face, just ...

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Click on the inset map of South Georgia to see Shackleton's route across South Georgia, which Reinhold Messner, Conrad Anker, and Stephen Venables retraced in April 2000.