Brown, Chip (January 2005). "Reinhold Messner's Mountain Madness". http://www.mensjournal.com/. Men's Journal. Retrieved 4 January 2016. "But for his entire career (Reinhold Messner) he has been mesmerized by the obscure peak that was his first major summit, where he lost his brother under circumstances that have been debated ever since."
Parson, W; Brandstätter, A (July 2007). "Unravelling the mystery of Nanga Parbat". International Journal of Legal Medicine. US National Library of Medicine. 121 (4): 309–310. doi:10.1007/s00414-006-0098-6. PMID16673142.
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Child, Greg (1 January 2006). "Es Ist Mein Bruder!". http://www.outsideonline.com/. Outside. Retrieved 4 January 2016. "Last summer, the headless corpse of Reinhold Messner's brother Günther emerged out of the snowmelt on Pakistan's Nanga Parbat. After 35 years of nasty arguments and accusations, would the discovery finally reveal who was to blame for his death and solve one of mountaineering's greatest mysteries?"
Parson, W; Brandstätter, A (July 2007). "Unravelling the mystery of Nanga Parbat". International Journal of Legal Medicine. US National Library of Medicine. 121 (4): 309–310. doi:10.1007/s00414-006-0098-6. PMID16673142.
Harding, Luke (22 October 2005). "DNA resolves climbing mystery after 30 years". www.theguardian.com/. The Guardian. Retrieved 4 January 2016. "The decades-old mystery over the fate of Günther Messner - the lost brother of the mountaineering legend Reinhold Messner - was resolved yesterday after DNA tests on a smuggled piece of big toe."
vanityfair.com
Shoumatoff, Alex (31 August 2006). "Brotherhood of the Mountain". www.vanityfair.com. Vanity Fair. Retrieved 4 January 2016. "A decades-old mountaineering scandal has bubbled back up to the surface: did climbing legend Reinhold Messner—who made his name by being the first to climb all 14 of the world's highest mountains—leave his brother Günther to die on Nanga Parbat, in Pakistan, in May 1970?"
