382 News found

12/02/2008 - Alpinism
Broad Peak winter attempt: Simone Moro and Co. towards Camp 3 Simone Moro, Shaheen Baig and Qudrat Ali are attempting Broad Peak, Pakistan in winter. At present they have established Camp 2 at 6200m,

14/01/2008 - Alpinism
Makalu winter attempt, the adventure begins The team comprised of the Italians Nives Meroi, Romano Benet, Luca Vuerich and the Kazakh mountaineers Denis Urubko, Serguey Samoilov, Eugeny Shutov and Gennady Durov has now reached Hillary Base Camp and all is set for their winter attempt of Makalu.

07/12/2007 - Events
Krakow Mountain Festival 2007 The 5th Krakow Mountain Festival will take place on 5 - 9 December and will star Steph Davis, Mick Fowler and Dean Potter.

19/11/2007 - Alpinism
Annapurna: Tomasz Humar south face report Tomaz Humar reveals details of his solo adventure to the East Summit of Annapurna (8047m) via a new line up the South Face.

07/11/2007 - Alpinism
Piolet d'Or Asia to Korean Garmush ascent November 2007. The second edition of the Piolet d'or Asia was held in Seoul on 2 November and was awarded to the Korean team comprised of Sim Kwang Sik, Kang Yongsun and Joo MinSu who in July 2007 carried out the first ascent of the Garmush West Face (Hindu Kush,...

25/10/2007 - Alpinism
Piolet d’or Asia 2007, the candidates The 4 nominations for the second edition of the Piolet d’or Asia, due to take place in Seol on November 2, have been made public.

20/06/2007 - Alpinism
Arwa Tower NE Face first ascent by Siegrist, Senf and Burdet On 07/06/2007 Stephan Siegrist, Thomas Senf and Denis Burdet carried out first ascent of Lightning Strike (VI M5 5.9 A3 1000m) up the NE Face of Arwa Tower (6352m), Garhwal Himalaya, India.

30/03/2007 - Alpinism
Japanese expedition climbs Lhotse South Face At the end of December a Japanese expedition led by Osamu Tanabe managed to climb the south Fasce of Lhotse (8516m) in winter, but turned back 40m short of the summit.

19/03/2007 - Book-press
UP European Climbing report The fourth edition of UP - European Climbing report edited by Maurizio Oviglia and Eugenio Pinotti and published by Versante Sud will go to press on 20 March.

24/01/2007 - Alpinism
Polish Nanga Parbat Winter Expedition abandons attempt The Polish attempt to climb Nanga Parbat in winter led by Krzysztof Wielicki has been called off and the the entire team is safely back in base camp.

09/01/2007 - Alpinism
Polish Nanga Parbat expedition An extremely strong and experienced Polish team led by none other than Krzysztof Wielicki is currently engaged in a taxing and dangerous winter attemtp of Nanga Parbat, at 8125m the 9th highest mountain in the world.

13/09/2006 - Climbing
Colpo di coda new Marmolada outing by Giordani e Faletti Maurizio Giordani and Massimo Faletti have made the first ascent of the 28-pitch "Colpo di Coda" 6c+/A2 up the south face of the Marmolada.

06/07/2006 - Alpinism
Pelmo SW Direct repeat by Roverato and Matteraglia On 1-2/07 Alessio Roverato and Luca Matteraglia repeated the Diretta alla parete Sud Ovest on Mt. Pelmo (Dolomites). First ascended in 1977 by Franco Miotto, Riccardo Bee and Giovanni Groaz, the route had been repeated only once in 1986.

06/04/2006 - Alpinism
Senfter and Moser climb Croda Rossa new route Arnold Senfter and Martin Moser from N. Italy, have made the first ascent of "Clean è Morto" on the North Face of the Croda Rossa pre-summit (3146m) in the Dolomites.

13/02/2006 - Alpinism
XV Piolet d'or to Steve House and Vincent Anderson On 10/02 in Grenoble the golden ice axe, the mountaineering oscar 2005, was awarded to Steve House and Vincent Anderson for their new route up the Rupal Face on Nanga Parbat.

03/02/2006 - Alpinism
Ueli Steck: first solo, repeat and winter ascent of The Young Spider on the North Face of the Eiger Ueli Steck: first solo, repeat and winter ascent of The Young Spider on the North Face of the Eiger
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