The elegant pyramid of 6,376m Grosvenor in the Minya Konka Range of China's Daxue Shan received its third and fourth ascents by new routes on opposite sides of the mountain. Read more »
Emerging Chinese alpinists Yan Dongdong and Zhou Peng have climbed three new routes in the Minya Konka Range of Sichuan's Daxue Shan. Read more »
The Alpine Club, driven by current president Mick Fowler, reinstated its annual symposia on the 26th November with an informative coverage of the mountains of China. Read more »
Slovenians Ales Holc, Peter Juvan and Igor Kremser have climbed what was the last remaining virgin 6,000m summit of the main Xuelian Group - Xuelian North East (6,231m). Read more »
Recipients of a 2010 Piolet d'Or for their first ascent of Xuelian West, Kyle Dempster and Bruce Normand have recently completed two impressive new routes in Sichuan's Minya Konka Group. Read more »
Supported by BMC and MEF expedition awards, Bruce Normand led a team of three Americans for several weeks of successful, exploratory climbing in the remote Chinese Central Tien Shan. Read more »
British mountaineers are generally renowned for exploratory visits to remote areas of the Greater Ranges. The most recent example took place in the rarely-seen, let alone visited, peaks of the Chinese Central Tien Shan that lie east of Pik Pobeda (7,439m), the highest mountain in the former Soviet Union. Read more »
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