Paul Ramsden: The Most Decorated Mountaineer You’ve Never Heard Of In the small ceremony hall in Briançon, France, a 54-year-old(now 56) Yorkshireman stepped forward to accept his fifth Piolet d’Or mountaineering’s equivalent of an Academy Award. Paul Ramsden had become…
Valery Babanov one of the world’s greatest alpine climbers Babanov Story: How a boy from Omsk became one of the world’s greatest alpine climbers and summited Everest at 60 In the industrial city of Omsk, deep in the Siberian heartland,…
Few names aroused as much admiration and regard in Russia’s climbing community as Nadezhda “Nadya” Oleneva’s. A passionate climber whose journey began in the peaks of the Bezengi Caucasus during her college years, Oleneva would go on to become one…
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