Famous climber retrieves dead brother

World-renowned climber Reinhold Messner has retrieved his brother's lost remains from Pakistan's perilous Nanga Parbat mountain, 35 years after their historic conquest of the peak ended in tragedy.

Fellow members of the 1970 expedition had accused Italian Messner of abandoning his brother Gunther, then 24, after reaching the summit of the world's ninth highest peak, when Gunther was suffering altitude sickness.

Messner said he was ahead of Gunther on the descent when an avalanche struck and buried his brother. He claims the location where the remains were found - on the western side of the mountain - support his account of what happened.