Category : Climbing

Newcomers’ Guide: The Snow Leopard Challenge

Martin Walsh

23/08/2021

Climbing

The Seven Summits and 8,000'ers aren’t the only popular mountaineering tick lists. The Snow Leopard challenge involves tackling the five h...

Two More New Routes in Peru’s Cordillera Blanca

Jilli Cluff

22/08/2021

Alpine style Climbing

Reports are just surfacing of two new first ascents on Nevado Hualcan (6,122m), a peak in the Cordillera Blanca range. The new alpine rou...

Rock Climbing in the Caribbean

Kristine De Abreu

21/08/2021

Climbing

Most people think of the Caribbean as a place to chill out beside turquoise water, but its geology also makes it an excellent playground for...

Spaghetti Tour FKT Falls Again, By Over Four Hours

Mark Wilson

19/08/2021

Climbing Endurance

Ultra-endurance athletes, alpinists, and adventurers seem to have really come into their own during the COVID-19 pandemic. It feels like a n...

How Valentin Mikhailov Died on Pobeda

explorersweb

19/08/2021

Alpine style Climbing

A rescue mission on a dangerous peak. Inexperienced climbers who didn't belong. Snow softening in the heat of the day. And then, the acciden...

Two Big Solos in the Dolomites

Ilana Newman

19/08/2021

Climbing

At the end of July, 29-year-old David Leduc of Belgium soloed two big routes in the Dolomites. One, the 1,600m Spigolo Nord, is a classi...

New Route on Rarely Climbed 5,000m Peruvian Peak

Sam Anderson

18/08/2021

Alpine style Climbing

In the Cordillera Central of Peru, A Peruvian-French team has forged the most difficult route to date up a rarely visited peak. On August...

Hungarians Bail on Dangerous Pobeda

Kris Annapurna

18/08/2021

Alpine style Climbing

It has been a dangerous, tragic season on Pobeda, where three climbers fell to their deaths -- Iranians Mehri Jafari and Reza Adineh and Rus...

What Price a Summit? Update on Pobeda and Khan Tengri

Kris Annapurna

14/08/2021

Alpine style Climbing

There have been four deaths on the two neighboring peaks in the last few days, maybe more. A few tried to help. Others turned off their radi...

Developing: At Least One Dead, Others in Peril on Khan Tengri

Jilli Cluff

12/08/2021

Alpine style Climbing

More news from northern Kyrgyzstan, this time from Khan Tengri (7,010m). We recently reported last week’s catastrophic summit attempts on ne...

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