Kunyang Chhish East - Piolets d'or 2014 Nomination

The Kunyang Chhish still has virgin summits and the east peak had been the object of several previous parties. After two attempts defeated by storm, Simon Anthamatten (Switzerland), Hansjörg and Matthias Auer (Austria) climbed the 2,700m mixed Southwest face in six days, two of which were spent trapped at 6,700m by foul weather. The corniced summit ridge, with its baroque architecture, proved spectacular.

- Ueli Steck and Raphael Slawinsky & Ian Welsted win the Piolets d'Or 2014