Wanda Rutkiewicz How the First Woman to Summit K2 and First European Woman to Summit Everest Disappeared Into the Himalayas and After 33 Years She Still Remains Mountaineering’s Greatest Mystery On February 4, 1943, in the Lithuanian town of Plungė,…
Fahad Abdulrahman Badar : The Qatari Who Raised His Flag on K2 with Five Finger Less Picture this you’re hanging by a thread literally on one of the world’s most dangerous peaks, your oxygen running out, hallucinating from exhaustion and…
The Federation President Putting Kyrgyzstan on World Mountaineering Map Summits K2 Without Supplemental Oxygen On August 11, at 17:00, Eduard Kubatov stood atop K2, the world’s second-highest peak at 8,611 meters. But this wasn’t just another summit for the veteran…
In the world of mountaineering, where every second can mean the difference between victory and tragedy, one name has been rewriting the record books with breathtaking speed Benjamin Védrines, this French alpinist has become the embodiment of modern mountaineering fast,…
In a small village Phaktalung in eastern Nepal, a young boy used to look up at the tall mountain peaks cutting through the sky. He had no idea that one day, he would become one of the world’s greatest mountain…
Afsaneh Hesamifard: Iranian Mountaineering Legend Who Broke Barriers for Iranian Women in Extreme Sports In the small city of Bojnord, North Khorasan, Iran, a legend was born on December 26, 1976. Afsaneh Hesamifard, whose name would later call across the…
How Nelly Attar Became the Arab World’s Revolutionary Sports Icon In the pre-dawn darkness of July 22, 2022, Nelly Attar stood atop K2, the world’s second-highest mountain. As she raised Lebanon’s flag on the 8,611-meter peak known as the “Savage…
From the remote village of Yaphu, Sankhuwasabha. where the sky touches the Himalayas, a young boy was born into the mountain way of life. Raised in the shadow of Makalu, Mingma Tenzi Sherpa didn’t just dream of climbing, he was…
Sajid Ali Sadpara: The Mountain’s Chosen Son On November 5, 2000, Sajid Ali Sapdara was born in the beautiful Sadpara valley of Pakistan’s Baltistan area, where huge peaks reach the sky and old glaciers carve their tracks through the mountains.…
In a tiny village called Spital am Pyhrn in Upper Austria, a young girl’s destiny was shaped by the towering peaks that surrounded her home. Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner, born in 1970, would go on to make history as the first woman…
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