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Reinhold Messner and Nirmal Purja meeting for Sports Festival in Italy
05/10/2020 - Alpinism
Reinhold Messner and Nirmal Purja meeting for Sports Festival in Italy
On Thursday 8 October the video will be aired documenting the encounter between Reinhold Messner and Nirmal Purja, two of the most famous mountaineers in the world, in the run-up to the Gazzetta dello Sport Festival which take place in Milan, Italy, from Friday 9 to Sunday 11 October.
Ang Rita Sherpa, Nepal's legendary Everest mountaineer, passes away
23/09/2020 - Alpinism
Ang Rita Sherpa, Nepal's legendary everest mountaineer, passes away
Ang Rita Sherpa, the legendary Nepalese mountaineer nicknamed Snow Leopard and famous for having climbed everest 10 times without the use of supplementary oxygen between 1983 and 1996, passed away yesterday at 72.
Paraclimbers Massimo Coda, Andrea Lanfri summit Mont Blanc
14/08/2020 - Alpinism
Paraclimbers Massimo Coda, Andrea Lanfri summit Mont Blanc
Interview with Andrea Lanfri who climbed Mont Blanc via the normal Italian route with Massimo Coda. In all likelihood they are theirs is the first paraclimbing partnership to achieve this undertaking.
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...
Goodbye to British climbing legend Joe Brown
16/04/2020 - Alpinism
Goodbye to British climbing legend Joe Brown
Joe Brown, one of the world’s greatest all-round climbers, passed away last night aged 89. Brown pioneered climbs throughout Great Britain, the Alps and the Greater Ranges in particular in the 1950's and '60's. Cenotaph Corner on Dinas Cromlech in Wales and the first ascent of Kangchenjunga (8586m) in Nepal...
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.
Julia Chanourdie sends Super Crackinette 9a+ at St. Léger in France
14/03/2020 - Climbing
Julia Chanourdie sends Super Crackinette 9a+ at St. Léger in France
French climber Julia Chanourdie has climbed her first 9a+, Super Crackinette at Saint Léger du Ventoux in France.
Nepal and China shut down Everest and all Himalaya
14/03/2020 - Alpinism
Nepal and China shut down everest and all Himalaya
The governments of China and Nepal have suspended all climbing permits to everest and the highest mountains in the world in an attempt to curb the spread of Coronavirus.
Cerro Cachet NE Face first ascent in Patagonia by Lukas Hinterberger, Nicolas Hojac, Stephan Siegrist
07/02/2020 - Alpinism
Cerro Cachet NE Face first ascent in Patagonia by Lukas Hinterberger, Nicolas Hojac, Stephan Siegrist
While climbing in Northern Patagonia, Swiss mountaineers Lukas Hinterberger, Nicolas Hojac and Stephan Siegrist made the first ascent of the NE Face of Cerro Cachet . The route has been called Homenaje a los amigos perdidos in memory of David Lama, Ueli Steck and Julian Zanker. Hinterberger reports.
Lydia Bradey, first woman to climb Everest without supplementary oxygen
03/12/2019 - Alpinism
Lydia Bradey, first woman to climb everest without supplementary oxygen
The short film about Lydia Bradey, the mountaineer from New Zealand who in 1988 became the first woman to climb Mount everest without supplementary oxygen.
Nirmal Purja climbs Shishapagma and completes 14 eight-thousanders in under 7 months
29/10/2019 - Alpinism
Nirmal Purja climbs Shishapagma and completes 14 eight-thousanders in under 7 months
Earlier today the Nepalese mountaineer Nirmal Purja reached the summit of Shishapagma and, in doing so, completed his ‘Project Possible’ which aimed at climbing all fourteen eight-thousanders in less than seven months. Purja required just six months and six days; the previous record to complete Himalayan crown was over 7...
Remembering Jerzy Kukuczka, the legendary Polish mountaineer
24/10/2019 - Alpinism
Remembering Jerzy Kukuczka, the legendary Polish mountaineer
30 years today: on 24 October 1989, Polish mountaineer Jerzy Kukuczka died while attempting Lhotse. Kukuczka was the second man to climb all fourteen eight-thousanders after Reinhold Messner and an absolute legend of high altitude Himalayan mountaineering.
Lhotse Couloir, the 2018 first ski descent by Hilaree Nelson, Jim Morrison
17/10/2019 - Alpinism
Lhotse Couloir, the 2018 first ski descent by Hilaree Nelson, Jim Morrison
The video of the first integral ski descent of Lhotse (8516m) in the Himalaya, down the famous Lhotse Couloir skied in September 2018 by Hilaree Nelson and Jim Morrison.
Wanda Rutkiewicz honoured by Google
16/10/2019 - Alpinism
Wanda Rutkiewicz honoured by Google
Polish mountaineer Wanda Rutkiewicz is honoured today with a Google doodle. Recognised as one of the greatest mountaineers of all times, on 16 October 1978 she became the third woman to climb everest, while in 1986 with France’s Liliane Barrard she became the first woman to climb K2. She ascended...
Junko Tabei, first woman to summit Everest, celebrated by Google
22/09/2019 - Alpinism
Junko Tabei, first woman to summit everest, celebrated by Google
Google has dedicated a doodle to celebrate the 80th birth anniversary of Junko Tabei, the first woman to reach the summit of everest. Here are some details about the historic ascent completed on 16 May 1975.
Goodbye Davo Karničar, skier of the impossible
Goodbye Davo Karničar, skier of the impossible
On 16 September 2019 the Slovenian mountaineer and extreme skier Davo Karničar lost his life. Karničar was famous in particular for his first integral ski descent of everest down the mountain’s south face.

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