Category: Mountaineering

As a rule, “fast and light-weight” is among the easiest methods to climb a mountain: pack a bag with the minimal amount of medicine you suppose you want after which go as fast as it’s possible you’ll until the job is accomplished. Often, the sunshine bit is pretty easy as quickly as you might have… Continue reading When Mountaineering Goes Mistaken: Unplanned Bivouacs

Not many people are lucky enough to go looking out one factor that excites them to the aim of obsession. It’s a distinctive feeling to be so consumed by one factor (mountaineering, in my case) that nothing else – relationships, money, or career – is necessary. Now that I’m a “common” particular person, not pretty… Continue reading Journey Tales: The End of Obsession

By summiting 82 of Europe’s highest mountains over 16 ranges, Kilian Jornet pushed himself to the psychological and bodily limits for his Alpine Connections problem. The numbers talk for themselves: 82 mountains summited in merely 19 days. Over 1,207km (749 miles) lined, with 72,233 meters (236,984 ft) of elevation obtain. Few athletes on the earth… Continue reading Kilian Jornet’s Alpine Connections: An Epic Journey

Getting up within the midst of the frigid evening time, pulling in your gear, and heading out into the darkness not at all will get any easier. Nonetheless, as rapidly as the first rays of sunshine appear throughout the sky and in addition you glimpse your surroundings, it looks like an effort worth making –… Continue reading Peak of the Week: Mera Peak, Nepal

In 1985, American businessman Dick Bass grew to grow to be the first particular person to climb the “Seven Summits” – one of the best peak on every continent. Everest is clearly one of the best mountain that Bass climbed inside the course of, and arguably the hardest, nonetheless even beginner hikers can tick off… Continue reading The Most Accessible of the ‘Seven Summits’

“We’ll must get some helmets if we protect doing points like this,” Christine quipped as we regrouped on an alpine ridgeline at properly over 13,000 ft. The climb to the saddle had been free, scrambly, and uncovered, and we’d wanted to place a substantial safety gap between ourselves on account of free rock and sliding… Continue reading An Epic In a single day inside the Ice Lake Basin

The Scottish mountains are genuinely distinctive. Barren, tree-less mountains descend into deep valleys (“Glens” in native parlance), giving it an ambiance and ambiance all of its private. To say there could also be nowhere pretty like Scotland is just not solely hyperbole – it’s completely right. Most mountain ranges on Earth are larger than the… Continue reading Strategies to Climb Ben Nevis

With the occasions getting colder, the local weather deteriorating, and 2024 looming, it’s onerous to not ponder what adventures the following yr will keep. Nonetheless, with 52 weeks obtainable and few of them – at this stage – booked up, it might be easy to be complacent and assume that you’re going to get a… Continue reading Strategies to Maximize Your Climbing & Mountaineering Subsequent 12 months

As expert skier Nadine Wallner lay inside the Alaskan wilderness with an open tibia and fibula fracture, she might have been forgiven for feeling ache previous the agony of the hurt itself. Solely a yr sooner than, in 2013, she’d reached the highest of her sport by being topped Freeride World Tour Champion and had… Continue reading Nadine Wallner: Scaling the Heights

Mountains have been climbed for thus prolonged now that it’s almost taken for granted that we folks have an intrinsic need to climb them, nevertheless the historic previous of Mont Blanc tells us in some other case. Until the mountain’s first ascent in 1786, nobody had ever truly thought-about dropping their invaluable vitality on climbing… Continue reading The Tallest Peak in Western Europe