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WEBGraian Alps - Mont Blanc. Haute-Savoie France. 17/09/2024 - Nicholas Hobley - Monte Colodri. 09/09/2024 - Matteo Bicego - Cima d'Auta. PlanetMountain.com specialised in alpinism, climbing, trekking, ski mountaineering via ferrata in the mountains from the Dolomites to the Alps, Mont Blanc, Matterhorn, Patagonia, Everest, K2, Himalaya.
Alex Honnold flashes Gaia E8 6c - PlanetMountain.com
WEBAlex Honnold. Sooner or later it was bound to happen: Gaia, one of the most emblematic routes on British gritstone, has been flashed for the first time ever, at the hands of visiting American climber Alex Honnold. For those unsure as to what this coveted ascent means, here's a little explanation that puts things into perspective: Gaia was ...
Eternal Flame, Nameless Tower, Trango Towers, Karakoram
WEBEternal Flame, Nameless Tower, Trango Towers, Karakoram, Eternal Flame is a world-famous multi-pitch route up the Nameless Tower in the famous granite Trango group in Pakistan's Karakorum mountain range. It was established in 1989 by an extremely strong German team comprised of Kurt Albert, Wolfgang Güllich, Christof Stiegler and Milan Sykora and after an immense effort at over 6000m they ...
Torre Egger Traverse in Patagonia by Priti Wright, Jeff Wright
WEBIn January 2022 Priti and Jeff Wright traversed three of the four peaks in the Patagonian Cerro Torre range: Aguja Standhardt, Punta Herron and Torre Egger, linking three different routes: Festerville, Spigolo dei Bimbi and Espejo del Viento. The video and Priti's smash and grab trip report, that follows their successful summit of Cerro Torre in February 2020.
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WEB4 days ago · 16/09/2024 - Alpinism. Piolets d'Or 2024 announces "big list" of Significant Ascents. The organisers of the Piolet d’Or mountaineering award have published the 'big list' of most significant and innovative climbs carried out in 2023. The honoured ascents will receive the Piolets d'Or 2024 award during the celebration at San Martino di...
Marc-Andrés Vision on Torre Egger in Patagonia
WEBThe video by Brette Harrington documenting the first ascent of Marc-Andrés Vision, a climb on Torre Egger in Patagonia imagined by Marc-André Leclerc and completed in 2020 by Harrington, Quentin Roberts and Horacio Gratton. Planetmountain. 21. June 2022. Traduci in. While rappelling from the route Titanic during the first winter solo ascent ...
Nanga Parbat 1970. Reinhold Messner told the truth
WEB1970. The brothers Reinhold and Günther Messner climb Nanga Parbat's virgin Rupal Face and carry out the first descent of the unclimbed Diamir Face. Günther Messner perishes during the descent. Reinhold searches for his brother in vain then, alone and completely exhausted, reaches a group of herdsmen. The other expedition memebers have ...
Don Quixote - Marmolada d'Ombretta - PlanetMountain.com
WEBDon Quixote, Marmolada d'Ombretta, Marmolada, Dolomites, Don Quixote is justifiably the classic line and, consequently, also the most repeated on the wall. The route climbs the characteristic rounded arête and pillar to the right of the routes Conforto - Bertoldi and Phillipp - Henger. It starts up a series of streaks, easy steps and grey slabs first leftwards than rightwards, to then ...
Reinhold Messner and Peter Habeler, 40 years ago Everest without ...
WEBMount Everest, first climbed without supplementary oxygen by Reinhold Messner and Peter Habeler on 8 May 1978. At around 1:15 pm on May 8, 1978, precisely 40 years ago today, Reinhold Messner and Peter Habeler reached the summit of Everest without the use of supplementary oxygen. Up there on the 8848 meter high summit they took some pictures ...
Clogwyn Du'r Arddu - Cloggy, Wales, Snowdonia, Llanberis
WEBClogwyn Du'r Arddu, more commonly known as Cloggy, is shrouded in a complicated and polemic history and is widely regarded as the "the shrine of British climbing." Located high in the Snowdonia National Park, this mountain crag is reached after an arduous walk along a path from bustling Llanberis. Shortly after the disused Halfway House the ...