PlayAlpinismo films: Nanga Parbat by Joseph Vilsmaier is the story of Reinhold and Günther Messner, of their great first ascent of the Nanga Parbat Rupal Face, of a tragedy and how a mountain can mark ...

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — A famed Italian mountaineer retrieved his brother’s lost remains from Pakistan’s perilous Nanga Parbat mountain, 35 years after their conquest of the peak ended in tragedy.

The ninth-largest mountain in the world, Pakistan's 8,125m Nanga Parbat has three main faces: the south-facing Rupal Face, the northeast-facing Rakhiot Face, and the northwest-facing Diamir Face. On ...

Jaw-dropping widescreen lensing is not matched by jaw-dropping human drama in “Nanga Parbat,” a German “mountain film” that recounts the Messner brothers’ still-controversial ascent of the eponymous 8 ...

The avalanche was a flash of snow. A beautiful but extremely dangerous explosion formed by the rock and ice detachments from the walls of Nanga Parbat, the mountain of destiny, the ninth highest on ...

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 ...

ROME — A renowned Italian mountain climber is missing and believed dead after falling into a crevasse on one of the world’s deadliest peaks in the western Himalayas, rescuers said Thursday. Karl ...

Denis Urubko and Maria Cardell are in Pakistan to open a new alpine-style route on Nanga Parbat's Diamir Face. Here, we examine the climbing history of this formidable 4,000m wall. Nanga Parbat ...