A leading Slovak mountain climber has died while descending a 7,234m (23,730ft) peak in Nepal, after completing the rare feat ...

Last summer South Tyrolean mountain guide Christoph Hainz made the first ascent, ground-up and rope-solo, of 'Dolomiti Race' ...

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A thought for Mauro Franceschini, Antonella Gallo, Antonella Gerini and Fabrizio Recchia who yesterday, Thursday 16/02/17, lost their lives when the icefall Bonne année collapsed in Valle di Gressoney ...

Ondrej Húserka fell while descending Langtang Lirung, which lies around 50 kilometres north of Nepal's capital Kathmandu and ...

This was during the golden age of alpinism, when many major peaks were ascended for the first time. While later mountaineers concentrated on climbing as a sport, earlier expeditions were of a more ...

They were truly redefining fast and light alpinism, climbing Alaskan testpieces in fractional time (often in ski boots with skis on their backs to descend); but perhaps most importantly they were ...

The climbing community mourns the loss of Chris Jones, a legendary figure in alpinism and climbing literature, who passed ...

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A leading Slovak mountain climber has died while descending a 7,234m (23,730ft) peak in Nepal, after completing the rare feat ...