NE Climbers Wander Directly in the Bugaboos
Vermonter Matt McCormick and French-Canadian Jean-Pierre Oullet established a new line, The Wandering Direct (V 5.11R), on the northwest face of South Howser Tower in the Bugaboos of British Columbia...
View ArticleOut Of Reality
Dodo Kopold and Michal Sabovcik have attempted a new line on Great Trango Tower (6286m). Over five days in August the pair climbed 1500m of what they are calling "Out of Reality" through ice,...
View ArticleNEWSFLASH Avalanche on Manaslu
BREAKING NEWS The details within this Newsflash represent our best understanding of the situation on Manaslu at this time. We will post a more detailed account once the full story is known. -Online...
View Article2013 Mugs Stump Award Opens For Applications Oct. 1
From October 1 through December 14, 2012, the 2013 Mugs Stump Award will be accepting grant applications from small climbing teams with fast and light alpine objectives. Established in 1993 to honor...
View ArticleManaslu Update
UPDATE: A first person account of the avalanche by Greg Hill (one of the rescuers) is linked here. Glen Plake's initial account is located here. Five helicopters spent the day ferrying injured...
View ArticleRussians Climb New Route on Muztagh Tower
Amidst a flurry of bad weather, Russians Sergey Nilov, Dmitry Golovchenko, and Alexander Lange have successfully established a new route up the North-East Buttress of Muztagh Tower in Pakistan's...
View ArticleWinter Adventure Grant
Summit Sealants Inc., is proud to offer the 3rd annual "Winter Adventure Grant" to encouarage winter exploration of the mountain ranges of North America. This year we have teamed up with ColdFear.com...
View ArticleFrieh Finds Two Late-Season Ascents In AK
In 16 hours, camp-to-camp, over October 5 and 6, John Frieh and Doug Shepherd climbed the first recorded ascent of the northwest face of Mt. Burkett (9,730') in Southeast Alaska. Can't Knock The...
View ArticleClimbers "Radio" For Help On Peruvian FA
Originally planning to climb the west face of Yerupaja (ca. 6600m), Austrian Florian Burger and Peruvian Beto Pinto put up a new route on Pisco (5752m) in late August. El Camino Secreto de Hermann...
View ArticleFull Report: Two Attempts, Two New Routes in Pakistan
Hayden Kennedy and Kyle Dempster capped off a successful season in Pakistan this summer, establishing two routes on two peaks in the Karakoram. They climbed in a 49-hour push on the east face of K7...
View ArticleBrits Climb Prow of Shiva in Alpine Style
This fall Mick Fowler and Paul Ramsden established a new line on seldom-climbed Shiva (6142m) in the Garhwal Himalaya. Their route traces the prominent northwest buttress they simply called the Prow...
View ArticleMaurice Herzog Dies at Age 93
Maurice Herzog passed away at the age of 93 on December 13. The French climber is best known for his bold ascent of Annapurna along with Louis Lachenal in 1950--both of whom suffered extreme frostbite...
View ArticleAAC Announces Recipients of 2013 Lyman Spitzer Grant
Press Release January 8, 2013, Golden, CO--The American Alpine Club (AAC) is proud to announce this year's Lyman Spitzer Cutting Edge Award recipients. Through the generous contribution of Lyman...
View ArticlePapert, Duverney Top Competition At Ouray
The Elite Mixed Climbing Competition at the 2013 Ouray Ice Festival opened under clear but frigid skies, with a characteristically challenging route. In recent years, the route setters have favored...
View Article2013 Mugs Stump Award Recipients Announced
The recipients of the 2013 Mugs Stump Award were announced today. The award, a collaborative effort of Alpinist Magazine, Black Diamond Equipment, Ltd., Mountain Gear, Patagonia, Inc. and W.L. Gore...
View ArticleOrtner, Lama Establish New Route in Austria's Lienzer Dolomites
On December 27, David Lama and Peter Ortner made the first ascent of Spindrift (VI: VIII- A1 M6 WI), a difficult 600m route on the north face of Laserz in the Lienzer Dolomites of Austria. The first...
View ArticleJapanese Team Climbs Kyashar South Pillar
In November, Yasuhiro Hanatani, Tatsuya Aoki and Hiroyoshi Manome made the first ascent of the highly sought-after South Pillar of Kyashar (6769mm) in the Khumbu region of Nepal's Mahalangur Himal....
View Article2013 Copp-Dash Recipients Announced
Press Release The Copp-Dash Inspire Award announced the 2013 winners of the climbing grant established in memory of American climbers Jonny Copp and Micah Dash who were killed in an avalanche in China...
View ArticleDisputed First Winter Ascent of Aid Line Claimed on Troll Wall
Last month, Andy Kirkpatrick, Tormod Granheim and Aleksander Gamme made the first technical winter ascent of a long aid line on the 1742m Troll Wall, Europe's tallest vertical rock face. Their climb...
View ArticlePatagonia 2012-13: Climbers Populate Rimeless Summits
Prototype ice axe "wings" intended for rime climbing are available for loan in El Chalten, but they have sat unused for much of the climbing season. A remarkably warm austral summer of 2011-2012 and a...
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