Andrzej Bargiel Finished a 13 Year Puzzle No One Else Could Solve
How a farm boy from southern Poland closed a 13-year project by skiing the Killer Mountain, top to bottom, without oxygen and without stopping
How a farm boy from southern Poland closed a 13-year project by skiing the Killer Mountain, top to bottom, without oxygen and without stopping
Manaslu turns 70 this year. In the seven decades since the world’s eighth-highest peak was first climbed, 3,643 people have stood on its summit. This autumn climbing season alone is expected to add more than 300 new summiteers to the…
Mingma David Sherpa, Nirmal “Nims Dai” Purja’s longtime climbing partner, close friend, and co-founder of Elite Exped, has shared a deeply personal tribute following Nims Dai’s death on Broad Peak. For Mingma David, Nims was far more than a climbing…
He survived one Everest avalanche by rescuing himself. A second avalanche, on Broad Peak, didn't give him the chance.
They left a coffee tin on the summit. It was the only monument they had time to build. Someone had carried it up through three camps and a night of rock climbing in the dark, and now, on the Central…
In July 2013, three young climbers from Tehran's Arash Mountaineering Club finished a route on Broad Peak that Iranian climbers had dreamed of for over a decade. They reached the summit. They never came down.
On July 30, 2026, Broad Peak witnessed one of the darkest days in its climbing history when an avalanche swept through a group of climbers between Camp 2 and Camp 3 at around 6,600 metres, taking the lives of 10…
Savage Mountain is a new feature documentary about Norwegian climber Kristin Harila. It is directed by Even Sigstad, who also wrote the screenplay, and produced by Filip Christensen of Field Productions, in co-production with Full Story Films, Sky News’ long-form…
A team of local volunteers from Shigar, searching the area on their own, found a body on Broad Peak this yesterda and it has now been confirmed as Sohail Sakhi, one of ten climbers killed in the avalanche of July…
Nepali singer and mountaineer Raju Lama reached the top of Mount Kilimanjaro on August 11 and dedicated the climb to the ten climbers who died in the Broad Peak avalanche on July 30. Lama, known for his music with the…
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