21+ hour, 1+ min ago  (808+ words) A powerful American team is on its way to a monster wall in India's Himalaya to attempt a pure alpine-style ascent. The team, led by Vitaliy Musiyenko, quietly left at the beginning of this week. "No noise, just the team,…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (620+ words) A freak incident has taken the life of a 60-year-old sport climber from Czechia on Greece's Kalymnos Island. Anchors in poor condition broke as the climber started rappelling, and then neglect from rescue services did the rest. The accident took…...

2+ mon, 3+ week ago  (349+ words) When Connor Herson of the U. S. sent Drifter's Escape in Squamish, British Columbia, last July, it looked like a hard line. Now that Herson has proposed a grade for the route, we need to change the adjectives. At 5. 15a (9a+ in Europe), this…...

3+ mon, 2+ week ago  (1767+ words) Tomorrow, January 23, Alex Honnold will attempt to climb a 508m Taipei skyscraper live on Netflix. No ropes " just him, a pair of climbing shoes, and a chalk bag. The stunt has focused attention on climbing like nothing since his Academy Award-winning…...

3+ mon, 3+ week ago  (833+ words) In the first year of my Ph D program, after a particularly bad week, I decided I was going to hike a mountain. Not a real one, with cliffs and glaciers: I was not stupid. I had never willingly gone…...

4+ mon, 1+ week ago  (718+ words) Major Gerry Owens was a British Army officer and mountaineer who died during an expedition to Nuptse in 1975. Today, December 31, is the 88th anniversary of his birth, and 2025 marks 50 years since his death. Born in 1937, Owens served with distinction in the…...