Legendary climber Reinhold Messner has been speaking about the dangers of mountaineering, following the fatal mountain accident involving the German Olympic biathlete Laura Dahlmeier. "You follow your ...

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.

In Part 2 of our interview series with filmmaker Werner Herzog, we examine his close calls with death, the existence of a ...

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 ...

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Dec. 27—Italian mountaineering legend Reinhold Messner spent decades straddling the line between life and death at Earth's lofty limits, relying on his supreme skills and a fair share of luck to cling ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Italian mountaineer Reinhold Messner signs the Golden Book of the state capital Erfurt. Jacob Schröter/dpa Legendary climber ...