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An American climber has died on Mt Ama Dablam as the autumn climbing season comes to a close.
According to the expedition organiser, Steven Biem, 47, breathed his last while descending the 6,812 metre-peak.
Steve along with other team members made it to the summit of Mt Ama Dablam yesterday afternoon.
Steve was a m...
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The video of David Lama and his solo ascent of Lunag Ri, the 6907m mountain on the border between Nepal and Tibet, climbed on 25 October 2018 by the Austrian mountaineer.
Photo credit: www.mountainfilm.org
On 25 October 2018 David Lama completed an extraordinary solo ascent of Lunag Ri in the Himalayas. This clim...
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Climbing alpine style for 3 days, mountaineers Vitus Auer, Sebastian Fuchs and Stefan Larcher have established a new route up Mt. Himjung (7092 m) in Nepal.
Vitus Auer, Sebastian Fuchs and Stefan Larcher have added a new route to Mount Himjung, the 7092m high mountain to the northeast of the Annapura massif in ...
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This article first appeared on Explorersweb.com. The original can be read here.
The thin air on Everest North Side will be a little cleaner next season. Eco-friendly, golf-like buggies driven by locals will be the only tourist transportation allowed into Base Camp. “It will help reduce pollution in the area and raise th...
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Ben Tibbetts, adventure photographer and IFMGA mountain guide, has now become the second British climber to summit all 82 of the 4,000m Alpine peaks recognised by the UIAA. However, the accolades to the achievement were only secondary to his goal to finish off his long-term project, the beautiful photo guidebook Alpenglow. ...
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Chris Wright (USA/UK) and Graham Zimmerman (USA/NZ) made the first ascent of a long, difficult mixed route on the North Face of Mount MacDonald at Roger’s Pass in British Columbia’s Selkirk Mountains. They named the new route The Indirect American (WI4+ M7, 1,000 meters).
Tackling a conspicuous, iced corner system, the...
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This kid is off the charts! By far the youngest to free the route (out of only six total), and he also climbs 5.14c sport.
While most kids his age were studying for a chemistry test, Spark-noting The Great Gatsby, or sneaking out to a kegger in the woods, 15-year-old Connor Herson, from Emerald Hills, California, was cas...
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This article first appeared on Explorersweb.com. The original can be read here.
High-altitude mountaineering has evolved since George Mallory gamely trudged up the Rongbuk glacier in 1924 towards his death, but despite satellite phones, bottled oxygen, plastic boots, acclimatization protocols and other lifesavers, one fa...
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That’s free climbing every pitch, rapping every pitch and jugging every pitch. Incredible stuff!
For real this time: Keita Kurakami has become the fifth person to free the Nose on El Capitan—and incredibly did it without a partner, rope-soloing the entire thing! That’s a first. Last year, the Japanese climber made headli...
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