Mountaineering

Avalanche Kills Nine in Nepal

Four Nepali Sherpas and five Korean climbers have died...
October 14, 2018

Weekend Warm-Up: Lunag Ri

It's a well-trodden path: The battle-hardened older master takes...
October 13, 2018

Erden Eruç: ExWeb’s Newest Ambassador

In July 2007, Erden Eruç set out from California's...
October 12, 2018

Denis Urubko: I’m going back to K2

By: Laszlo Pinter There is no doubt that Russian Denis...
October 10, 2018

Poles Abandon Manaslu

Eight Polish climbers have abandoned their climb of a...
October 10, 2018

Austrians Notch Unclimbed Himalayan peak

Four veteran Austrian alpinists have made the first ascent...
October 9, 2018

The Greatest Goal: Teams Prep for Winter K2

In the times of overcrowding, massive use of bottled...
October 8, 2018

Weekend Warm-Up: Skiing Noshaq

Almost 50 years ago, members of the Innsbruck Academic...
October 6, 2018

Luo Jing Becomes First Chinese Woman to Climb all 14×8000’ers

Update: October 5, 2018, Spanish news website Desnivel reports...
October 4, 2018

Sergi Mingote Claims His Third 8,000’er

[caption id="attachment_7052" align="alignnone" width="278"] Camp 2 on Manaslu. Photo:...
October 3, 2018

Carlos Soria Abandons Dhaulagiri

“It’s over - the mountain is impossible to deal...
October 2, 2018

Lhotse Update: Morrison and Nelson Ski the Dream Line

Everest guide Adrian Ballinger has confirmed on social media...
October 1, 2018

Adventure Psychology: In Conversation with Dr Nathan Smith

In a recent interview, Italian mountaineer Reinhold Messner said...
September 30, 2018

Huber Abandons North Face of Latok I

Thomas Huber, along with fellow German Rainer Treppte, Italian...
September 28, 2018

Hellmuth and Baranov to ski Dhaulagiri

Herbert Hellmuth of Germany and Sergey Baranov of Russia...
September 24, 2018

Weekend Warm-Up: 500 Miles to Nowhere

The premise of bivy-paragliding is simple, even if the...
September 22, 2018

Avalanche Hits Sherpas on Dhaulagiri

An avalanche on Dhaulagiri has hit a team of...
September 20, 2018

Russians to Ski Annapurna

This year's flurry of ski descents of big peaks...
September 17, 2018

Will the Dream Line Finally be Skied?

American ski mountaineers Hilaree Nelson and Jim Morrison are...
September 17, 2018

Weekend Warm-Up: Breaking Burma

  [caption id="attachment_6610" align="alignnone" width="1352"] Nearing the summit of Hkakabo...
September 15, 2018

Sergi Mingote Targets his Second 8,000m Double-Header

[caption id="attachment_6926" align="aligncenter" width="960"] Testing the saturation of oxygen....
September 13, 2018

Poles Return to Manaslu East

An all-Polish team is heading to the Himalaya to...
September 9, 2018

Weekend Warm-Up: Baffin

In 2016, filmmaker Joshua Lavigne followed Marc-André Leclerc and...
September 8, 2018

Women’s expedition to the eight-thousander “Manaslu 2018 Awilux Discover”

The following article by Piotr Chmielinski appears on ExplorersWeb...
September 8, 2018

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