Mountaineering
Watch: Pete Whittaker & Sean Villanueva O’Driscoll Team Up In Patagonia
As I watched the highly enjoyable new film This...
Mont Blanc’s Lethal Season Continues: Two Die On Classic Ski Route
After two recent tragedies on Mont Blanc, the mountain...
Welfringer, Livingstone Send Formidable New Route in Alps
Tom Livingstone and Symon Welfringer have completed a first...
Bad Weather, Tough Decisions: Kangchungtse, 1985
Makalu, the world's fifth-highest mountain at 8,481m, has two...
French Phenom Enchains Three Peaks In Ecrins Massif
When Benjamin Vedrines sees a “logical, elegant line traveling...
Three Climbers Pull Off 15-Peak Traverse in Kyrgyzstan
In modern alpinism, traverses have become one of the...
The Story of Nanda Devi: Irresistible Will Meets Immovable Goddess
The state of Uttarakhand in northern India is often...
Top 10 Expedition of 2022: #6: Alina Kosovska’s Solo Winter Traverse of the Transcarpathian Route
As 2022 dawned, more than 100,000 Russian troops were...
The Open Secret is Out: Harila, Gelje, Brownlee Head to Winter Cho Oyu
After weeks of rumors, indirect posts, off-the-record conversations, and...
The Woman Who Climbed England’s Highest Peak in the Early 1800s
These days it's not unusual for all sorts of...
4th Climber To Conquer The Alps: 82 Peaks In 78 Days
While many alpinists have climbed all of the Alps'...
Winter Soloists: Crazy, Maybe. Committed, Definitely
Solo winter ascents lie at the extreme end of...
New Routes in the Remote Northern Tien Shan
The northern Tien Shan ranks among those remote places...
New Route on Barnaj II in India’s Kishtwar Himal
There were two interesting recent expeditions to the Himalaya...
Kilian Jornet on FKTs vs Records in the Mountains
The celebrated trail runner, skimo racer, and speed climber...
Nepal, UPDATED: Action on Annapurna IV, Chumbu, and Pungi
A 14-man Russian team is currently climbing Annapurna IV...
Small Country, Big Impact: A Short History of Japanese Alpinism
It is difficult to find mountains in the Himalaya...
British Man Tries to Climb Mont Blanc in Tracksuit, Nearly Freezes to Death
A 26-year-old British man almost died on France's Mont...
DiGiulian, Harrington, and Soderlund Climb 8c/5.14b Big Wall In Spain
Three of the world's leading climbers — Matilda Soderlund,...
