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 ...

The world-renowned Italian climber Reinhold Messner was among the first to scale Mount Everest in 1978 without bottled oxygen and was the first person to climb all of the world’s 14 mountains higher ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Jim Clash writes about extreme adventure and classic rock. Here in part two, Messner explains the concept behind the mountain ...

The photos of the sixth Messner Mountain Museum, inaugurated at Plan de Corones, South Tyrol, Italy, on 24 July 2015. After Castel Firmiano on the outskirts of Bolzano, Ortles at Solda, Monte Rite ...

The striking 10,700-square-foot Messner Mountain Museum Corones is located 7,500 feet above sea level and accessible via cable car from within the Kronplatz ski resort in South Tyrol, Italy. Each ...

The Zaha Hadid-designed Messner Mountain Museum (MMM) in Corones, which opened on July 24, is the last in a network of six museums erected on mountaintops across South Tyrol in an ambitious museum ...

The Messner Mountain Museum's facilities form a unique mosaic, an experiential space where nature and culture intertwine to offer a profound understanding of the significance that mountains have ...

The renowned mountaineer Reinhold Messner—a prolific adventurer famous for making the first climb up Mt. Everest without the aid of an oxygen tank–has spent the last decade building a series of ...

This is the furthest of our suggestions and the only one that is not easily reachable on foot, located in the suburbs of Bolzano. It’s still less than 6 km away from the city centre and well connected ...

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 ...