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 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 ...

A new museum designed by Zaha Hadid for famous mountaineer Reinhold Messner has opened on the top of the Kronplatz peak, in the South Tyrol, Italy The 1,000m² scheme is the sixth and final project in ...

The new museum for famous mountaineer Reinhold Messner was constructed on the top of the Kronplatz peak in South Tyrol, Italy The 1,000m² scheme is the sixth and final project in the series of Messner ...

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Reinhold Messner would pass unnoticed on a British high street; but set him loose anywhere in central Europe and he'd almost certainly be mobbed. This isn't the simple question of national identity it ...

Zaha Hadid has revealed images of her addition to the Messner Mountain Museum, a string of buildings dotted through the Dolomites of northern Italy. For the sixth and final Messner Mountain Museum ...

Last week the first of my interview series with the world’s greatest mountaineer, Reinhold Messner, was published. In it, Messner discussed his amused disgust with the commercialization of Mt. Everest ...

"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 ...