11 December was International Mountain Day! The theme for this year’s celebration focuses on mountain farming to tie in with the International Year of Family Farming 2014. Read more »
British mountaineer and Andes specialist, John Biggar, has recently made an interesting ascent of a remote, isolated peak on the Chile-Bolivia border. Read more »
After Walter Bonatti (2009), Reinhold Messner (2010), Doug Scott (2011) and Robert Paragot (2012), the fifth Piolets d'Or lifetime achievement award has been bestowed on Austrian mountaineer Kurt Diemberger. Read more »
Mick Fowler and Martin Price are amongst six mountain men awarded a prestigious 2012 medal from the King Albert I Memorial Foundation. Read more »
To alpinists the Petit Dru is the most easily recognizable granite monolith in the world, and this year there are three anniversaries connected with the West Face, with a celebratory evening on 31 July at the Majestic Congress Centre in the heart of Chamonix. Read more »
True mountaineering is under threat: consumers are dragging the mountains down to their own level with oxygen and ladders. It's time to stop pretending that standards haven't progressed and start climbing with integrity, says Nick Bullock. Read more »
Canadian author Bernadette McDonald is enjoying the rare accolade of having won both the 2011 Banff and Boardman-Tasker literary awards. Read more »
A prominent ridge on New Zealand's highest mountain, 3,754m Aoraki-Mount Cook, is to be renamed after the country's most famous mountaineer, though the decision to do so has not met with universal support. Read more »
As the number of climbing and trekking parties to Afghanistan's remote Wakhan Corridor continues to increase, there is news that the Linda Norgrove Foundation has contributed a grant to support a new trekking enterprise in the region. 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 »
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