Mountaineering

Weekend Warm-Up: Far Away

"Kat starts grinding into an off-width and then this...

David Lama, Hansjörg Auer and Jess Roskelley Missing in Avalanche

Three of the world's most talented alpinists, Austrians David Lama...
Alex Txikon

Txikon Interview, Part II: What Really Happened to Nardi and Ballard

The most-discussed aspect of Alex Txikon's winter K2 expedition...

Weekend Warm-Up: The Towers of Ennedi

Totally off the tourist radar, rarely seen by the...
Basque (Spanish) Alex Txikon on winter K2

Exclusive: Alex Txikon on a Troubled K2 Winter Base Camp

Alex Txikon has both done a lot and has...

Is it Possible to Climb the Highest Peak in Every Country in the World in One Lifetime?

Whether down a river, up a mountain, through a...

Weekend Warm-Up: Uruca II, Bugaboos Edition

This animated film stresses human -- some would say...

Bielecki: Why I’m Going Back to Annapurna

Polish climbing ace Adam Bielecki is leaving this weekend...

Jannu Climbers: Safe at Last

For the past six days, fans of Himalayan mountaineering...

Ethnic and climbing travel across the continents

I have been realizing my travel and climbing project...

Weekend Warm-up: Twenty

With many sports, you can imagine the emotion that...

Weary Climbers Continue Down Jannu

Fifteen days after setting off up the Southeast Face...

Forecasting the Weather on Mount Everest

You don't need a PhD to forecast the weather...

Jannu: Decision Made, They’re Going Down

After 13 precarious days on 7,710m Mount Jannu, Sergey...

Decision Time on Jannu: Forward or Back?

Sergey Nilov and Dimitry Golovchenko face an impending decision...

Russians Reach Crux on Jannu

Sergey Nilov and Dimitry Golovchenko have now passed 7,000m...

Weekend Warm-up: The Denis Urubko Story

"I was eating something from the rubbish, I was...

Russians Move Slowly Up Jannu

Sergey Nilov and Dimitry Golovchenko have reached 6,510m on...

Mount Jannu: Why is it So Hard?

"A beauty, bizarre and proud, ridges ... forming stately...
Everest north side

Himalayan Spring Roundup: Everest, Annapurna, Jannu

[caption id="attachment_9812" align="alignnone" width="785"] Everest Base Camp will soon...
Alex Txikon team member above 7,000 meters on winter k2, March 17, 2019

K2 Quest Ends: Txikon Back in Base Camp

[video width="640" height="352" mp4="https://s3.amazonaws.com/www.explorersweb.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/24004614/VID-20190317-WA0011.mp4"][/video] As it often does, the wind...

K2: One More Day to the Bottleneck, Two to the Summit

[video width="640" height="352" mp4="https://s3.amazonaws.com/www.explorersweb.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/24004617/VID-20190316-WA0006.mp4"][/video] Alex Txikon, Pasang Sherpa and Cheppal...
Basque (Spanish) Alex Txikon on winter K2

Winter K2: A Two-Day Window for Climbers

"Camp 2 here, Camp 2 here, already in the...
Alex Txikon on winter K2

Breaking News: Winter K2 Summit Push is ON

Hoping to beat both the conditions and the approaching...

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