2203 News found

The winter expedition to Manaslu led by Simone Moro and Alex Txikon has been called off due to constant snowfall and the elevated risk of avalanches.

Marianna Jagercikova from Slovakia and Oriol Cardona Coll from Spain are the new European ski mountaineering Champions in the Sprint discipline.

The ski Mountaineering European Championships start today at Boí Taüll, Vall de Boí, in the Spanish Pyrenees. The races begin today with the Sprint, streamed live at 12:20

Llast week in Valtellina, Italy, Axelle Gachet Mollaret and Xavier Gachet won the Individual race of the ski mountaineering World Cup 2021/22, while Emily Harrop and Oriol Cardona Coll won the Sprint.

Corrado 'Korra' Pesce, the Italian mountain guide known as one of the strongest climbers of his generation, lost his life on Cerro Torre in Patagonia.

On Saturday 29 January at Saas Fee in Switzerland local favourite Petra Klingler and France's Louna Ladevant won the 2022 Lead Ice Climbing World Championships. Mohsen Beheshti Rad and Natalia Savitskaia were crowned Speed World Champions on Friday 28 January.

Yesterday at Morgins in Switzerland Marianna Jagercikova from Slovakia and Oriol Cardona Coll from Spain won the second Sprint race of the 2021/22 ski Mountaineering World Cup season.

On 18/01/2022 Roger Schäli, Mario Heller and Pablo Pontoriero paraglided off the summit of Cerro Torre in Patagonia after having climbed the West Face Ragni route.

The 5th episode of SCOTT's Freedom To Explore Series features Winter Pro Team Athlete Jackie Paaso, mountain guides Benjamin Ribeyre and Erin Smart and team, on an expedition to climb and ski the 12 highest peaks in Sweden, in an area known as Europe's last wilderness.

The Italian Ragni di Lecco alpinists Paolo Marazzi and Luca Schiera have set off on expedition to Patagonia, more precisely to the Hielo Norte glacier, where they will attempt a mountain they noted in 2020 that is currently uncharted.

A case study of the use of drones in the historic first ski descent of K2, carried out in 2018 by Poland’s Andrzej Bargiel

Austrian climber Jakob Schubert has made a swift repeat of Erebor at Eremo di San Paolo close to Arco, Italy. The 9b was put up by Stefano Ghisolfi and previously repeated by Laura Rogora and Adam Ondra.

In 2021 the Italian mountaineer Francesco Vascellari, solo or with friends such as Loris De Barba, completed a dozen new extreme skiing descents in the Dolomites.

Winter attempts on some of the highest mountains in the world are about to begin: Hervé Barmasse, David Göttler, Mike Arnold and Qudrat Ali will attempt Nanga Parbat; Simone Moro, Alex Txikon and Rinzee Sherpa will try their luck on Manaslu; Jost Kobusch will attempt to solo Everest.

Winter climbing in Scotland: on 10 December 2021 Simon Richardson and Mark Robson made the first ascent of Princess Cut (VI,6) on Glas Leathad Beag on Ben Wyvis.

Over a period of 11 days at the start of December 2021 Polish mountaineers Marcin Tomaszewski and Damian Bielecki made the first ascent of Frozen Fight Club (A3, M7, 780m)on Uli Biaho Gallery, Trango, Krakorum, Pakistan.