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First ascents
Action on Two Nepal 6,000’ers: First Ascents or Not? Plus: Annapurna, Manaslu
Nepal's Department of Tourism has released the season's first...
March 17, 2023
Angela Benavides
Hanns Schell: Unlocking the 7,000’ers
Some mountaineers are real explorers. Austrian Hanns Schell fits...
March 13, 2023
Kris Annapurna
A First Ascent of ‘Earth’s Loneliest Volcano’
There’s a lonely volcano in the South Atlantic Ocean,...
March 12, 2023
Sam Anderson
Scotland’s Hardest Winter Route: First Repeat Falls to Filip Babicz
Bring da Ruckus, a fiendishly difficult XII 13 two-pitch...
March 9, 2023
Andrew Marshall
Siegrist Goes ‘Back to the Future’ For One of the Hardest Climbs in the U.S.
One unlikely strip of stone in southern Nevada’s Clear...
February 26, 2023
Sam Anderson
Watch Adam Ondra Scream His Way Up the Second-Hardest Climb of His Life
I’d think I would have gotten tired of watching...
February 15, 2023
Sam Anderson
Cazzanelli and Partners ‘Dream’ Up New Route in Italian Alps
The alpinist’s defining challenge is to confront the impossible....
February 9, 2023
Sam Anderson
New First Ascent on the Grandes Jorasses
It took two attempts, but climbers Giuseppe Vidoni, Richard...
February 7, 2023
Andrew Marshall
Greg Boswell Fights For Scotland’s Hardest Winter Climb
The ceiling of difficulty in Scottish winter climbing just...
January 19, 2023
Sam Anderson
Sending ‘Gigantor’: The Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Route
After zero people in 15 years were capable of...
January 16, 2023
Sam Anderson
Patagonia’s ‘Unseen Mountain’ Sees First Ascent
Climbing in Patagonia isn’t always about testing one’s skills...
January 10, 2023
Sam Anderson
Alex Honnold Solos ‘Silly’ New Route On Nevada’s El Padre
Alex Honnold’s latest route probably won’t go down as...
January 4, 2023
Sam Anderson
Unclimbed Himalayan Peaks For Clients: A New Sales Strategy?
Some outfitters are trying to overcome the negative perception...
December 21, 2022
Angela Benavides
Coming Soon: Villanueva O’Driscoll and the Dodos Do Greenland
How to describe the Dodos? A band of merry...
December 13, 2022
Andrew Marshall
Climbers Meet Accidentally When Two Big New Routes Link Up in Dolomites
One elegant new route on Torre Trieste — a...
December 6, 2022
Andrew Marshall
Gyala Peri and Namcha Barwa: Two Hard 7,000’ers Climbed Only Once
At the eastern end of the Himalaya lies a...
December 5, 2022
Kris Annapurna
A Three-Week Traverse of the Northern Patagonia Icecap
Climbers Isidora Llarena, Rebeca Caceres, and Nadine Lehner recently...
December 2, 2022
Andrew Marshall
Italians Bag First Ascent of Sato Pyramide
When Stefano Ragazzo and Silvia Loreggian first discovered the...
December 1, 2022
Sam Anderson
Adam Ondra Puts Down ‘Second Hardest Route of My Life’
The hardest route remains the groundbreaking 'Silence', 9c, a...
November 21, 2022
Andrew McLemore
‘Frigo-combo’: A Long, Cold, Loose First Ascent in Switzerland
If you want to climb Silvan Schupbach and Peter...
November 20, 2022
Sam Anderson
Laura Rogora Climbs Another Beastly Sport Route: ’80 Ghisa,’ 9a
One of the world's hardest women climbers has struck...
October 17, 2022
Sam Anderson
Frigid Bivy Leads to First Ascent in India’s Zanskar
On August 23, a Basque-Catalan climbing team stood on...
October 15, 2022
Sam Anderson
Alexander Megos Completes ‘The Full Journey’ 9b at Margalef, Spain
The now-grown-up wunderkind from Germany flat-out rips at Margalef....
October 13, 2022
Sam Anderson
‘Always Up, Always Forward’: Veteran Climber Plucks 9a+ Gem
You could call Dani Fuertes a “lifer”. The Aragonese...
October 12, 2022
Sam Anderson
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