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 ...

Günther Messner really did perish during the descent of the Nanga Parbat Diamir Face, as his brother Reinhold has always sustained. Günther Messner really did descend Nanga Parbat's Diamir Face, just ...

Moments after the elation of reaching the summit of Nanga Parbat at sunset alongside his younger brother, Gunther, Reinhold Messner’s descent into despair began. At 8,126 metres, on top of the ...

Now that his brother, who died on Pakistan's Nanga Parbat, has been identified, Italian climber and mountaineer Reinhold Messner considers himself rehabilitated. But his critics continue to harbor ...

“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 ...

Archive piece from 2016. Ed Caesar's book, The Moth and the Mountain, will be released on 12th November 2020. You can pre-order it here. Reinhold and Günther Messner were raised by the mountains. Born ...

JUNE 27, 1970. Two Tyrolean brothers, Reinhold and Günther Messner, stand atop 26,660-foot Nanga Parbat, in Pakistan’s western Himalayas. Having snatched the first ascent of one of the biggest alpine ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...