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Alexander Gukov shares his experience of surviving alone for a week at 6200 m on Latok I (7145m) after his partner Sergey Glazunov fell to his death on the descent with most of their equipment.
[This story first appeared in Alpinist 64, which is now available on newsstands and in our online store. The issue also features...
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Gazing up from base camp in 2015, David Lama and Conrad Anker repeatedly contemplated if that bare, rocky protrusion near the top of Lunag Ri could possibly be the true summit. It looked too improbable, too perfect.
But what if it was?
They failed to find out in 2015, turning around at 300 meters shy of the 6,895-mete...
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The Basque climber Alex Txikon will be leading a 9-man team, while the Kazakhtani climber Vassily Pivtsov will be leading a 7-man team.
K2 is about to be bustling: This winter there will be two different teams—comprised of at climbers from at least six different countries—on the mountain. Will this be the year that all 8...
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Winter mountaineering in the Brenta Dolomites: on the east face of Cima Brenta, Alessandro Beber and Matteo Faletti have made the first ascent of the important new ice and mixed climb CRAM (550m, AI5, M6, 90°). Beber and Faletti report.
Alessandro Beber establishing pitch 9 of CRAM up Cima Brenta (Brenta Dolomites)Phot...
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This article first appeared on Explorersweb.com. The original can be read here.
by Damien Gildea
On December 27, Colin O’Brady wrote triumphantly on Instagram:
“The wooden post in the background of this picture marks the edge of the Ross Ice Shelf, where Antarctica’s land mass ends and the sea ice begins. As I pull...
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Trango Towers are situated in the north of Pakistan in Gilgit Baltistan. Trango towers are the combination of rocks snow gullies and vertical limits. This mountain famjam got some impressive and extremely difficult rocky towers on the planet Earth.They...
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Josh Hancock broke his back when he fell while ice climbing in Snoqualmie, Wash., on Dec. 4, 2014. That was no small bump in the 35-year-old’s ambitious, outdoorsy life. He became paraplegic, requiring him to use a wheelchair and rendering his three-story Seattle townhouse inaccessible. Hancock refused to let his injury sto...
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Ten days after strangling a mountain lion to death in self-defense, Travis Kauffman, 31, made his first public appearance in good spirits, wearing the same jacket from the day of the incident at a limited access press conference Thursday.
Kauffman was attacked by a juvenile mountain lion while trail running in the Horset...
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The seemingly superhuman climber and the Oscar-winning actor-musician have struck an unlikely friendship, and they invited The Hollywood Reporter to join a recent wall session: "Im getting my ass kicked, which is great."
Alex Honnold, star of the Oscar-contending doc Free Solo, is perched precariously halfway up an 85-fo...
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To reach the top of a sea stack you must overcome ferocious seas and towering rock walls – it’s no wonder Iain Miller is one of the few people to do it.
Iain Miller is a full-time professional sea stack climber who spends his days guiding visitors from all over the world up and down the giant rock towers that line the wa...
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