On Oct. 9, Nima reached the top of the 8,027-meter (26,335-foot) Shishapangma along with his partner, Pasang Nurbu Sherpa.
I recently wrote an article on this fall’s Himalayan climbing season specific to Manaslu, as endurance athlete Tyler Andrews recently broke the speed record to ...
Thirty-five years ago today, one of the all-time giants of mountaineering perished. On Oct. 24, 1989, Poland’s Jerzy Kukuczka ...
The Piolets d'Or - The Golden Ice Ave The Piolets d’Or, known as the ‘Golden Ice Axe’, represents mountaineering’s highest ...
Jordi Corominas of Spain has received the Walter Bonatti Lifetime Achievement Award from the Piolet d’Or committee. Well ...
Spanish alpinist Jordi Corominas has been named as 2024 recipient of the Piolets d'Or Carrière. He will receive the 16th ...
Everest, before the clients arrive at Base Camp a team of skilled Sherpa climbers make and fix the route from the bottom of the Khumbu IceFall to Camp 1, and again up the Lhotse Face and Southeast ...
His team said he summitted the world's highest mountain, 29,032-foot Mount Everest, last year, within a day of reaching the top of another peak on the 8,000-meter-plus list, Mount Lhotse.
The following year, he reached the summits of Kanchenjunga, Lhotse, Makalu ... and the relentless pursuit of excellence in the face of adversity.