47 News found

17/04/2025 - Alpinism
Rive Gauche d’Argentière (Mont Blanc), new mixed climb 'Volevo essere un duro' At the Rive Gauche of the Argentière Glacier (Mont Blanc), Massimo Faletti and Enrico Lovato have established 'Volevo essere un duro'. Lovato's report details this challenging and stunning mixed climb located in the Highlands sector, repeated the same day by Davide Cattani and Claudio Marchetti.

04/11/2024 - Alpinism
Ondrej Húserka perishes on Langtang Lirung in Nepal Slovakian mountaineer Ondrej Huserka died last week while descending Langtang Lirung in Nepal, shortly after having made the first ascent of the huge East Face with Marek Holeček. Born in 1990, he was widely regarded as one of the leading young alpinists, not only from Slovakia.

23/02/2024 - Snow Ski-skimountaineering
Fay Manners and Tom Lafaille ski big new line on Aiguille d’argentiere On 17 February Fay Manners and Tom Lafaille made the first ski descent of the Arête Charlet Straton on Aiguille d’argentiere in the Mont Blanc Massif. Manners reports about the 5.4 line they have called 'Stratonspherique'.

30/08/2022 - Snow Ski-skimountaineering
Ryan Colley and his Swiss Alps Ski Traverse A short summary and video of Ryan Colley and his Ski Traverse across the Alps in Switzerland. 580km over 26 days, carried out last spring.

21/04/2022 - Snow Ski-skimountaineering
Tom Lafaille, Aurélien Lardy ski probable new line on Aiguille d’argentiere On 17/04/2022 French alpinists Tom Lafaille and Aurélien Lardy skied what is likely to be a new line down Aiguille d’argentiere in the Mont Blanc massif. The descent has been called Les Vires du Jardin.

10/10/2018 - Alpinism
Aiguille d'argentiere: new climbs in the Mont Blanc massif Slovak mountaineers Ondrej Húserka and Ján Smoleň have established two new rock climbs on Aiguille d’Argentière in the Mont Blanc massif: Crystal route up Contreforts Charlet-Straton and In memory of Červienka up Plateau du Jardin.

27/05/2018 - Snow Ski-skimountaineering
Paul Bonhomme completes Aiguille Verte 4 Faces in a day French mountain guide Paul Bonhomme has completed his project of climbing and skiing 4 different faces on the Aiguille Verte (4122 m) in the Mont Blanc massif on the same day.

04/05/2018 - Snow Ski-skimountaineering
Triolet North Face daring descent by Jonathan Charlet and Christophe Henry France's Jonathan Charlet and Christophe Henry have made a ski and snowboard descent down the North Face of Triolet, Mont Blanc massif.

14/04/2016 - Snow Ski-skimountaineering
Les Courtes Austrian route skied by Boissenot, Roguet, Brunel and Gentet On 10/04/2016 Yannick Boissenot, Stéphane Roguet, Nicolas Brunel and Titi Gentet descended on skis the Austrian route down the North Face of Les Courtes (3856m), Mont Blanc massif.

27/01/2016 - Events
Ice Climbing Ecrins 2016 festival report The report about the 26th edition of Ice Climbing Ecrins, the festival that took place from 14 - 17 January at l’Argentière-La Bessée, France.

04/01/2016 - Events
Ice Climbing Ecrins Festival at Argentière-la-Bessée From 14 - 17 January 2016 the international ice climbing meeting "Ice Climbing Ecrins" will take place at Argentière - La Bessée, France.

24/08/2015 - Alpinism
Aiguille d'Argentière, new Mont Blanc rock climb by Vincent Fournier and Jeff Mercier On 15/07/2015 Vincent Fournier and Jeff Mercier made the first ascent of "Efareb", 1200m / 6b+ max. up South Face of Aiguille d’Argentière (3901m), Mont Blanc massif.

18/06/2015 - Alpinism
Glacier d'Argentière in the Mont Blanc massif Aerial footage of the Argentière glacier taken last week by Yannick Boissenot.

09/01/2015 - Events
Ice Climbing Ecrins, 25th meeting at Argentière - La Bessée From 15 - 18 January 2015 Argentière - La Bessée (France) will host Ice Climbing Ecrins, the classic international ice climbing meeting that celebrates its XXV edition.

14/08/2014 - Alpinism
Mont Blanc, six alpinists perish on Aiguille d'argentiere On 13/08/2014 six alpinists were found dead on Aiguille d'argentiere in the Mont Blanc massif.

01/05/2014 - Snow Ski-skimountaineering
Tour Noir South Ridge first ski descent by Merikanto and Heimonen On 26th of April 2014 the Finnish skiers Mika Merikanto and Mikko Heimonen made what is believed to be the first ski descent of the South Ridge of Tour Noir in the Mont Blanc massif.
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