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Manaslu’s Summit Route Still Isn’t Fixed , A Climber Survived Into a Crevasse Near First Camp
Manaslu, the world’s eighth-highest mountain at 8,163 meters, has become the undisputed center of Nepal’s autumn 2026 climbing season. As of the Department of Tourism’s

How Three Spanish Guides Won Their Country’s First Piolet d’Or
There was a point, high on the ridge of Yerupajá, when going back stopped being an option. Three men stood on a knife-edge of snow

How a failed 2024 attempt became the climb that won Ultar Sar’s Hidden Pillar and the 2026 Piolet d’Or
Night on the southeast pillar. Three headlamps move against black rock and blacker sky, small as fireflies against 3,100 meters of ice, mixed ground, and

How James Price & George Ponsonby Crack a 42-Year-Old Karakoram Puzzle?
How two young alpinists talked their way onto a Karakoram wall no one had touched since 1983 and climbed straight into the Piolets d’Or

Avalanche Kills 11 Training Alpinists on Russia’s Mount Mizhirgi
A wall of snow, ice and rock broke loose on Mount Mizhirgi on Sunday afternoon and slammed into a camp where dozens of climbers were

Benjamin Védrines and Nicolas Jean Win Piolets d’Or
At 6,900 meters on the east ridge of Jannu, there is no flat ground. There are no fixed ropes above, and there is no rescue