The accomplished Catalan ski mountaineer racer and sky runner, Kilian Jornet, has made an astonishingly fast traverse of Mont Blanc via the Innominata Ridge. Read more »
Nothing beats trekking in the mountains. But before you lace your boots up in some exotic destination, you need to make a plan. Read more »
Following borders is very much in vogue. While John Harlin begins his traverse of the Valais Alps in an attempt to complete the circumnavigation of Switzerland, top French alpinist Lionel Daudet is on the frontier ridges of the Mont Blanc range, at the start of his anticlockwise journey around the edge of France. Read more »
Following his 2010 attempt, which was aborted in the early stages due to accident, American mountaineer John Harlin is currently trying to circumnavigate Switzerland, keeping on or "within a stone's throw" of the frontier. Read more »
American mountaineer, accomplished author and editor of the American Alpine Journal, John Harlin, has been injured in a fall during the early stages of an attempt to follow the entire Swiss border under his own steam. Read more »
There are few remaining unclimbed 6,000m-peaks in South America, but a small British party has recently made what they believe is the first ascent of 6,046m Medusa North East in the Puna de Atacama. 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 »
Andrew Entwistle introduces four stories from the 2008 BMC Alpine Walking course to get you inspired for this year's meet. Read more »
Financed to a tune of 6.4 million Swiss Francs by the Swiss Alpine Club and, through various sponsorship deals, the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich), a brand new Monte Rosa Hut above Zermatt should be completed by the autumn of 2009. Read more »
The BMC Alps Meet finished today, the end of a two week meet in which over fifty BMC members climbed and walked in the Valais. Read more »
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