Reinhold Messner (born 1944) is the first people ever to climb all 14 of the world's mountain peaks over 8,000 meters high. He has written over 30 books on his adventures, and his minimalist techniques have revolutionized Himalayan mountain climbing....

Messner has climbed all 14 mountains that exceed 26,250 feet and plans a new climb in Pakistan. He popularized the Alpine-style technique of climbing the Himalayas, making the ascent and descent quickly. He is a believer in 'elegant' climbing. WHEN the 5,000-year-old mummified...

Paul Deegan meets the man widely regarded as the world's greatest mountaineer, who at age of 56 is now climbing the walls of his parliamentary office in Brussels AFTER ALL THE stories and all the hyperbole, actually meeting Reinhold Messner shatters the...

Fifty years later, the man who first stood on the roof of the world lamented how Mount Everest had changed since his historic summit."It is hardly mountaineering; more like a conducted tour," Sir Edmund Hillary told reporters in Katmandu in 2003, celebrating the anniversary of...

Yuichiro Miura has an unusual routine for a man who just turned 75. At dawn, the veteran adventurer wakes after a night in a private low-oxygen chamber. He straps weights onto his ankles, hoists a 44-pound backpack onto his shoulders and hikes for hours around...