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Guinness Has Revoked Reinhold Messner’s 8,000er Record. Climbers Protest.
Climbing via Yahoo Sports· 7 months agoMoments before a storm rolled in, Italian mountaineers Reinhold Messner and Hans Kammerlander...
Decades-Long ‘Conspiracy’ Resolved: Reinhold Messner Vindicated in Brother’s Death
GEARJUNKIE via Yahoo News· 2 months agoThe original version of this article was published on ExplorersWeb. Reinhold Messner has finally...
Climber Considered the Greatest of All Time Has Guinness World Records Stripped, Slams Guinness for...
MEN'S JOURNAL via Yahoo News· 7 months agoOnly a few dozen people have ever climbed the world's 14 mountain peaks stretching higher than 8,000...
What are the Seven Second Summits? And why are there eight?
Advnture via Yahoo News· 7 months agoMountain range. The mountaineering world is all about fear, reward, and setting and breaking new...
Mount Everest, Still Mountaineering’s Most Coveted Prize
Outside via Yahoo News· 2 years agoThis article originally appeared on Climbing This article is part of Climbing’s online archives...
Kristin Harila and Tenjin Sherpa Set New Speed Record on the 8000ers
Outside via Yahoo News· 9 months agoThis article originally appeared on Outside On July 27 at 10:45 A.M. Pakistan Standard Time,...
Manaslu, How Many Have Really Climbed It?
Outside via Yahoo News· 2 years agoThe 8,000er has recently become mired in controversy, with photographic analysis revealing that few climbers claiming ascents have reached the actual...
Ed Viesturs Does Not Care About Your Guided 8,000er Speed Record
Climbing via Yahoo Sports· 6 months agoMore climbers than ever set out for Mount Everest's summit, and 17 died on the mountain, the most...
Remembering Ed Webster, 66
Climbing via Yahoo Sports· 1 year agoThis article originally appeared on Climbing In the summer of 1988 Ed Webster visited me in Colorado Springs. He had just returned from Mount Everest...
The South Face of Dhaulagiri I: One Of the Himalaya’s Last Great Challenges
ExplorersWeb via Yahoo News· 1 week agoThe 4,100m South Face of Dhaulagiri I has stymied great climbers since 1977. It is one of the last...