The Austrian Christian Stangl has become the first to climb the Triple Seven Summits, the three highest mountains on each of the seven continents. Read more »
Aiming to become the first father and son team to climb K2, the highly experienced New Zealand guide Marty Schmidt, and his son Denali, are missing presumed dead after a large avalanche struck a camp where they were spending the night. Read more »
The Uzbek mountaineer, Iljas Tukhvatullin, who famously climbed new routes on both Everest and K2, has died in an avalanche on the north face of Annapurna. Read more »
After an excellent June, July's weather in the high mountains of the Karakoram has been consistently bad, thwarting a number of ambitious projects. Read more »
One of the best all round mountaineers of his generation, and undoubtedly the most famous from the flat lands of Holland, Ronald Naar, has died, aged 56, on Cho Oyu. Read more »
One of the greatest mountaineers of modern times, the Swiss Erhard Loretan, was killed on the 28th April whilst guiding in the Bernese Oberland. Read more »
One of America's best known alpinists, Joe Puryear, is reported to have been killed while attempting a summit in Tibet's Labuche Kang Range. Read more »
One of Japan's greatest mountaineers, Osamu Tanabe, is missing, presumed dead in the high mountains of Nepal. Read more »
In a sad reflection of the pressure perceived by today's professional climbers to succeed, the Austrian mountaineer Christian Stangl has confessed to falsifying his recent claim of reaching the summit of K2. Read more »
Fredrik Ericsson's attempt to ski the three highest peaks in the world came to an end on the 6th August, when he was killed in a fall from the infamous Bottleneck on K2. Rob Wylie from Osprey looks back at Fredrik's legacy. Read more »
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