Returning to his "spiritual home" on the Italian side of the Mont Blanc Massif, Tony Penning has climbed another small new summit below the great south-southeast face of the Grandes Jorasses. Read more »
Two of the most active French alpinists of their generation, Ecrins pioneer Max Bonniot and Sébastien Ratel of the Groupe Militaire de Haute Montagne (GMHM), have put up a hard new route on the East face of the Grandes Jorasses. Read more »
A much publicized incident last week on the Grandes Jorasses, which could be followed in almost real time on the Internet, ended in tragedy, when French guide Olivier Sourzac and his client Charlotte Demetz perished in a ferocious storm. Read more »
Accompanied by his usual Swiss climbing partner Roger Schaeli, German alpinist Robert Jasper has recently made the second overall and first free ascent of Voie Sébastien Gay on the North Face of the Matterhorn. Read more »
Last month 21-year-old Ally Swinton from Scotland made only the third known British ascent of the legendary Gervasutti-Gargliardone Route on the East Face of the Grandes Jorasses. Read more »
Unusually good conditions in the high mountains of the Mont Blanc Range this autumn have resulted in rare repeats of hard mixed climbs. Nowhere has this been more notable than the Grandes Jorasses. Read more »
Capitalizing on the unusually heavy snow cover currently prevailing in the Alps, three Italians and one Frenchman have climbed new ground in an attempt to solve arguably the most outstanding problem on the Grandes Jorasses. Read more »
Following advice from the Servizio Geologico della Regione Autonoma Valle d’Aosta, Courmayeur authorities have forbidden everyone from visiting the upper section of the path to the Boccalatte Hut and the terrain above leading to the Rocher de Reposoir. Read more »
For 30 years the second ascent of the legendary Sergé Gousseault Route on the Walker Spur of the Grandes Jorasses has been credited to Gordon Smith and Tobin Sorenson. It now appears that the line they climbed was almost entirely independent of the Gousseault, far more direct and most probably one of the hardest routes completed in the Alps at the time. Read more »
Ueli Steck has made the fastest ascent to date of the North Face of the Grandes Jorasses, from base to summit, via the modern classic Colton-MacIntyre. The talented Swiss alpinist completed the 1,100m route in just two hours and 21 minutes. Read more »
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