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21/08/2012 - Climbing
Blaueisgletscher, bouldering in Germany Florian Wenter introduces the bouldering area Blaueisgletscher, more than 100 boulders from Fb5 to Fb8B located at 1800m in Germany.
16/08/2012 - Alpinism
Cerro Standhardt winter success for Siegrist, Senf and Weber Stephan Siegrist, Thomas Senf and Ralf Weber have successfully climbed Cerro Stanhardt, the northermost summit of Patagonia's Cerro Torre group, in winter and in alpine style via the classic Exocet route.
16/08/2012 - Climbing
Baffin Island, Mount Asgard success for Papert, Walsh and Lavigne Ines Papert, Jon Walsh and Joshua Lavigne have established Sensory Overload (1200m, 5.11+, A1) up Mount Asgard, Baffin Island.
30/07/2012 - Alpinism
Scerscen - Bernina traverse Michele Comi reports about a great alpine traverse, the one which crosses the summit of Monte Scerscen and traverses to the summit of Piz Bernina (Western Rhaetian Alps).
27/07/2012 - Alpinism
K7, new route up the East Face by Kennedy, Dempster and Novak Kyle Dempster, Hayden Kennedy and Urban Novak have made the first ascent of a new route up the virgin East Face of K7 (Karakorum, Pakistan).
19/07/2012 - Alpinism
Revelation mountains, new Slovenian first ascents in Alaska In spring 2012 a Slovenian expedition to the Revelation Mountain range in Alaska resulted in a flurry of first ascents up virgin peaks. The trip report by expedition leader Anze Cokl.
12/07/2012 - Alpinism
Mont Blanc - Mont Maudit avalanche: rescue updates An update by Alessandro Cortinovis, director of the Valle D'Aosta Mountain Rescue Service about the avalanche on Mont Maudit which at 5:30 this morning killed 9 alpinists and injured 14 others.
12/07/2012 - Alpinism
Avalanche on Mont Blanc: 9 deaths on Mont Maudit This morning an avalanche on Mount Maudit (Mont Blanc) killed 9 alpinists. 9 others have been injured, and unfortunately this toll is still only provisional.
09/07/2012 - Alpinism
Slovak Direct on Denali climbed by Bullock and Houseman From 24 - 27 June 2012 British alpinists Nick Bullock and Andy Houseman made a rare repeat of the Slovak Direct route up Denali (6194m) in Alaska.
18/06/2012 - Snow Ski-skimountaineering
Stephane Brosse, the world's ski mountaineering champion has died Great mourning in the ski mountaineering world and that of the mountains in general: on Sunday 17/06/2012 the 41 year-old ski mountaineering champion Stephane Brosse died as a result of a cornice collapse on Aiguille Argentiere (Mont Blanc).
08/06/2012 - Alpinism
Valery Rozov and the B.A.S.E. jump off Shivling in Himalaya On 25 May 2012 Valery Rozov from Russia made the highest BASE Jump in the world by leaping from 6420m just below the summit of Shivling in the Himalaya.
19/05/2012 - Alpinism
David Lama repeats Les Barbares on Pointe Raphel Borgis du Pré de Bar On 14/05/2012 Austrian alpinist David Lama has carried out a remarkable, fast and solitary repeat of Les Barbares on Pointe Raphel Borgis du Pré de Bar (Argentière, Mont Blanc, France).
16/05/2012 - Snow Ski-skimountaineering
Grivola NE Face, first snowboard descent On 14/05/2012 Davide Capozzi made the first snowboard descent of the NE Face of Mt. Grivola, accompanied by the skiers Luca Rolli and Francesco Civra Dano.
02/05/2012 - Competitions
Patrouille des Glaciers 2012, the winners and the shortened competition Lorenzo Scandroglio recounts the 2012 edition of Patrouille des Glaciers, the legendary ski mountaineering competition from Zermatt to Verbier which due to dangerous conditions was stopped short at Arolla.
23/04/2012 - Alpinism
Holtanna Base Jump in the Antarctic Video of the first BASE jumps from Peaks Holstinnd and Holtanna in the Antarctic.
23/04/2012 - Alpinism
Holtanna Base Jump in the Antarctic Video of the first BASE jumps from Peaks Holstinnd and Holtanna in the Antarctic.
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