On May 8, 1978, world-renowned alpinist Reinhold Messner and his frequent partner, Peter Habeler, became the first to summit Mount Everest (29,032 feet) without supplemental oxygen. It was a major ...

When Reinhold Messner and Peter Habeler trekked to Everest Base Camp in 1978, they were the only two people on Earth who believed they weren’t marching toward their own graves. Their goal was to reach ...

That said, there are still a number of elite climbers who have summited Everest without oxygen. The great Italian Reinhold Messner, American Ed Viesturs and Austria’s Peter Habeler all come to mind.

The short film about Lydia Bradey, the mountaineer from New Zealand who in 1988 became the first woman to climb Mount Everest without supplementary oxygen. Google has dedicated a doodle to celebrate ...

Documentary about a 1976 British expedition team that made mountaineering history when they became the first kayakers to descend the Dudh Kosi river that runs off Mount Everest. Documentary about a ...