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This winter’s frigid weather created the perfect conditions for three intrepid ice climbers to make the first-ever ascent of Canada’s tallest waterfall.
At 440 metres tall, Della Falls in Vancouver Island’s Strathcona Provincial Park has been an insurmountable climbing challenge — until late last month.
Over four cold...
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What will it ultimately take for a team to bag the first winter summit of K2?
With little fanfare, the Basque climber Alex Txikon and his team returned to K2 Base Camp on March 17, ending the only remaining attempt at the first winter K2 summit this winter. Not a surprise, big winds stopped the climb as it did for the Ka...
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Scientists from the western world have returned to Mt Everest this season to carry out researches in the high Himalaya region.
There would be at least two groups of scientists who will not only be standing atop the roof of the world but also doing different scientific researches in the high Himalayas, multiple sources in...
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Malavath Poorna, the youngest girl to summit Mount Everest when she was just 13 years old, has added another feather in her cap. Now at 18, she has scaled another major peak the Cartensz Pyramid which stands at a height of 4884m in Indonesia.
As part of her 7-Summits Challenge, which is about scaling the seven tallest ...
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This article first appeared on http://explorersweb.com. The original can be read here.
“I was eating something from the rubbish, I was sleeping on the street. And it broke me a lot.” — Denis Urubko
Denis Urubko, enigma of the mountaineering world, a hero to some, vilified by others. One thing you can’t question, howev...
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Disenchantment with the material world pushes us to the Himalaya to reconnect with Nature.
Mountaineers have been asked why they climb mountains for as long as big mountains have been climbed. But for Himalayan and other Native peoples around the world, the question is ‘Which deity lives up there?’
Many mountaineers ...
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For most a skiing holiday might involve a few runs down a gentle slope.
But for this self-defined lover of mountains nothing but a vertical cliff edge would do.
Kilian Jornet, 31, was the first person to ski down Europes largest vertical scarp - Troll Wall in the Rauma Valley, Norway.
Almost a straight drop to th...
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This article first appeared on http://explorersweb.com. The original can be read here.
While winter in the Karakorum ended, with the retreat of Alex Txikon and his team to Base Camp on K2, spring in the Himalaya has officially begun.
Typically, the first sign of spring is not a robin or the equinox itself, but the pu...
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Melting glaciers on Mount Everest are revealing the bodies of dead climbers, sparking concern from the organizers of expeditions to the famous peak, according to the BBC.
The BBC reports that global warming is unlocking the deadly mountain’s gruesome secrets. Everest has claimed the lives of almost 300 climbers since the...
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