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