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Campanile di Val Montanaia / Crowdfunding campaign to repair bronze bell
01/06/2020 - Alpinism
Campanile di Val Montanaia / Crowdfunding campaign to repair bronze bell
The Pordenone section of the Italian Mountaineering Club has launched a crowdfunding campaign to repair the bell on Campanile di Val Montanaia in the Friuli Dolomites, damaged by lightning in 2019.
Ropes fixed to Everest summit for Chinese height measurement expedition
26/05/2020 - Alpinism
Ropes fixed to Everest summit for Chinese height measurement expedition
News broke a few hours ago that a team of mountaineers belonging to a Chinese expedition which aims to measure the height of Everest has reached the summit having climbed up the Tibetan side of the mountain and fixed ropes to the tip. The Chinese expedition is the only expedition...
Chris Bonington - Life and Climbs, the film about legendary British mountaineer now online
01/05/2020 - Alpinism
Chris Bonington - Life and Climbs, the film about legendary British mountaineer now online
The docu-film Chris Bonington - Life and Climbs (2015, 22 minutes) is now online. Directed by Vinicio Stefanello for the Municipality of Courmayeur, in this film great British mountaineer tells his life story.
Viacruxis, Marcel and Andrezj complete legendary animated climb
28/04/2020 - Alpinism
Viacruxis, Marcel and Andrezj complete legendary animated climb
The award-winning short Viacruxis directed by Ignasi López, featuring the mountaineers Marcel and Andrezj battling to summit one of the highest unclimbed mountains in the world.
Chamlang UFO / Márek Holeček, Zdeněk Hák premiere today at 20
23/04/2020 - Alpinism
Chamlang UFO / Márek Holeček, Zdeněk Hák premiere today at 20
Today at 20:00 CET the premiere of UFO Life, the film documenting the first ascent of UFO up the NW Face of Chamlang in the Nepalese Himalaya, carried out in 2019 over 6 days alpine style by Czech mountaineers Márek Holeček and Zdeněk Hák.
Matterhorn guides raise over €14,000 with charity sale of historic Échelle Jordan ladder
21/04/2020 - Alpinism
Matterhorn guides raise over €14,000 with charity sale of historic Échelle Jordan ladder
The Italian Matterhorn Guides have raised € 14,631 with the sale of the historic Échelle Jordan, the original rope ladder used by thousands of mountaineers on their way to the summit of the Matterhorn. The money will go to charities fighting the coronavirus.
Remembering Hansjörg Auer, David Lama, Jess Roskelley
16/04/2020 - Alpinism
Remembering Hansjörg Auer, David Lama, Jess Roskelley
It's a year to the day that Hansjörg Auer, David Lama and Jess Roskelley were killed in a climbing accident on Howse Peak in Canada.
Marc Toralles, Bru Busom climbing the Slovak Direct up Denali in Alaska
13/04/2020 - Alpinism
Marc Toralles, Bru Busom climbing the Slovak Direct up Denali in Alaska
Watch Spanish mountaineers Bru Busom and Marc Toralles repeating the Slovak Direct up the South Face of Denali (6194m) in Alaska in 2019.
Marcel Remy, 94, climbing Miroir de l’Argentine in Switzerland
12/04/2020 - Alpinism
Marcel Remy, 94, climbing Miroir de l’Argentine in Switzerland
The film Marcel directed by Nicolas Falquet which follows Marcel Remy as he climbs the west face of Miroir de l'Argentine in Switzerland. Father of the famous Swiss mountaineers Claude and Yves Remy, Marcel repeated the route in 2017 aged 94.
Aiguille du Plan Mystery solved by Ondrej Húserka and Evka Milovská
30/03/2020 - Alpinism
Aiguille du Plan Mystery solved by Ondrej Húserka and Evka Milovská
From 21 to 22 February Slovak mountaineers Ondrej Húserka and Evka Milovská made the first ascent of Mystery (85 °, M8, C1, 600m (15 pitches) on Aiguille du Plan in the Mont Blanc massif. Húserka reports.
Linea Continua, the film by Hervé and Marco Barmasse on YouTube
27/03/2020 - Alpinism
Linea Continua, the film by Hervé and Marco Barmasse on YouTube
Hervé Barmasse has published 'Linea Continua’ on YouTube, the film about the new route he established on the South Face of the Matterhorn with his father Marco. First ascended in 2010, it is still unrepeated.
Luis Penín, David López Sáenz unearth Gaia at Ehrwald in Austria
25/03/2020 - Alpinism
Luis Penín, David López Sáenz unearth Gaia at Ehrwald in Austria
At the end of February and start of March Spanish mountaineers Luis Penín and David López Sáenz made the first ascent of the mixed climb Gaia (175m, M12?, WI6+) at Ehrwald in Austria.
Do your part
25/03/2020 - Environment
Do your part
Now more than ever we are called upon to do our part. We must stay at home for everyone’s good, in order to regain happiness and also the freedom to return to the mountains.
Luka Lindič & Luka Krajnc add new route to Aguja Saint-Exupéry in Patagonia
19/03/2020 - Alpinism
Luka Lindič & Luka Krajnc add new route to Aguja Saint-Exupéry in Patagonia
Interview with Slovenian alpinists Luka Lindič and Luka Krajnc after their first ascent of Mir, a new climb up Aguja Saint-Exupéry in Patagonia.
Latok 1, the Aleš Česen, Tom Livingstone and Luka Stražar ascent
16/03/2020 - Alpinism
Latok 1, the Aleš Česen, Tom Livingstone and Luka Stražar ascent
The documentary of Aleš Česen, Tom Livingstone and Luka Stražar in summer 2018 making the coveted second ascent of Latok I 7145m in the Karakorum, Pakistan.
Federica Mingolla, Edoardo Saccaro and the Greenland big wall video
15/03/2020 - Alpinism
Federica Mingolla, Edoardo Saccaro and the Greenland big wall video
The video of Federica Mingolla and Edoardo Saccaro establishing La Cura, a big wall climb up the south face of Middle Pillar of Nalumasortoq above the Tasermiut Fjord in Greenland in summer 2019.