Mount Everest
Reinhold Messner On Summiting The “Eight-Thousanders”

Reinhold_Messner_at_Juval_(2012)

Reinhold Messner was the first person to climb all fourteen eight-thousanders in the world, referring to the fourteen mountains whose summits are at least eight thousand feet above sea level. He did all of these climbs without the help of supplemental oxygen. On his first climb of an eight-thousander, Nanga … Continue reading

Mount Everest
Reinhold Messner Reflects on His Mountain Climbing Career

Reinhold Messner Reflects on His Mountain Climbing Career

Mountaineer Reinhold Messner discusses the climbing career that led to his supplemental oxygen free climb of Mount Everest on May 8, 1978 and recalls what the experience was like for him and climbing partner, Peter Habeler. Messner also comments on other mountains he ascended and the future of mountain climbing … Continue reading

1924 British Mount Everest Expedition
Conrad Anker on Discovering the Frozen Body of George Mallory

Luca Galuzzi

Adventurer Conrad Anker recalls the moment he discovered the body of George Mallory during his ascent of Mount Everest and describes the documentary he made that captured his attempt to mirror Mallory’s climb. George Mallory and climbing partner Sandy Irvin disappeared in 1924 and were discovered on May 1, 1999.