On first pass, "Army" seems like your standard Ben Folds class clown routine. His voice drops in out of nowhere -- "Well I thought about the army/ Dad said, 'Son, you're fuckin' high!'" -- and we're ...

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

"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 ...

At age 77, after having pushed the limits of what a human being can physically achieve, Reinhold Messner looks back at a life lived at the edge of life and death, and turns philosophical about the art ...

"I want to be remembered as the alpinist who failed more than anyone else on the 8000m peaks." If you have an idea about who Reinhold Messner is, based on an image of him portrayed (thanks also to ...

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 ...

While Reinhold Messner and Diane Schumacher have announced their wedding, the historic owners of Grivel, Betta and Gioachino Gobbi, got married on May 8 2021. Weddings don’t usually make our headline ...

For some, impossible is the point where dreams begin. Reinhold Messner is one such person. This Saturday, the legendary mountaineer will share some of his death-defying stories as the keynote speaker ...

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - NOVEMBER 15: Jimmy Chin speaks onstage at the PANERAI x Jimmy Chin Collaborative Short Film Premiere on November 15, 2019 in New York City. (Photo by Craig Barritt/Getty Images ...

Reinhold Messner, born September 17, 1944 in Bressanone/Brixen in South Tyrol, is a German-speaking Italian mountaineer, considered by many to be one of the best of the 20th century. A great defender ...