A tragic accident has robbed us of one of the world's foremost female mountaineers, Kei Taniguchi, while climbing on Mt Kurodake in Japan. Read more »
News is arriving from India of a bold alpine-style ascent of the previously unclimbed southwest face of Kamet (7,756m) by four members of the French Groupe Militaire de Haute Montagne. Read more »
Japanese Kazuya Hiraide and Kei Taniguchi, who received a Piolet d'Or for their 2008 first ascent of 7,756m Kamet's southeast face, have made the first south to north traverse of West Tibet's 7,694m Gurla Mandhata. Read more »
Our intrepid team managed to file four daily reports from the 2009 international meet before excitement overtook them. Just what did happen on day 5 and 6...? Read more »
Twenty nine years old Kazuya Hiraide and his partner, 36 years old Ms Kei Taniguchi, scored a notable success in October when they completed one of the most significant new routes climbed in the Himalaya this autumn - the previously unattempted but much admired South East Face of Kamet in India's Central Garwhal. Read more »
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