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 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 ...

The world-renowned Italian climber Reinhold Messner was among the first to scale Mount Everest in 1978 without bottled oxygen and was the first person to climb all of the world’s 14 mountains higher ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Jim Clash writes about extreme adventure and classic rock. Here in part two, Messner explains the concept behind the mountain ...

The starchitect pairs up with famed rock climber Reinhold Messner for the final installment of his museums dedicated to mountain culture. The renowned mountaineer Reinhold Messner—a prolific ...

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 ...

I step to the edge of the precipice and peer over to jagged cliffs below. I feel off-balance, but for no good reason; I’m safe behind a wall of glass at Corones, a museum atop the ski resort of ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The Messner Mountain Museum is Zaha Hadid's third project in the Alps, following her seminal ...