Óscar Gogorza

The Japanese citizen, who may be on his way to collecting his fourth Piolet d’Or mountaineering award, has announced that he will take on the formidable and brutal west face of K2

The Russian climber died on Gasherbrum IV in circumstances that have not yet been clarified by his loyal teammate and fellow Piolet d’Or winner Sergey Nilov

The high-altitude porter was the victim of both the indifference of those around him and the increasingly cruel business of mountain tourism in the Himalayas and Karakoram

A captivating Netflix documentary tells the amazing story of champion Alessia Zecchini and her partner, Stephen Keenan

Accompanied by Tenjen Lama Sherpa, the Norwegian has ascended the 14 eight-thousanders in 92 days, but the feat will leave little trace in the history of mountaineering

The 17 deaths this season – a tragic record – act as a warning about overcrowding on the world’s highest mountain

Almost a century after his disappearance, the remains of Andrew Irvine and the camera that could prove that he and George Mallory summited in 1924 have still not been found

The Athens-born skier decided to leave the US national team and represent Greece and this season he has been a revelation on the circuit, taking slalom silver in Courchevel for his birth nation’s first-ever winter sports medal

The American alpinist makes a solo ascent of the Goretta Pillar in Patagonia and pays homage to Italian mountaineering legend Renato Casarotto who named the rock ridge for his wife, Goretta Traverso

David Göttler and Hervé Barmasse will take on the 8,167-meter Dhaulagiri summit with little more than a rope, crampons and axes: ‘Our chances of success are tiny, but they would be zero if we had stayed at home’

Eleven years after accompanying the American climber on his toughest free solo in Yosemite, filmmaker Peter Mortimer has released the footage

In 2006, the Swiss mountaineer gave it all up for God, but now he’s returned to scaling cliffs

In 1808, Marie Paradis summitted the highest peak in the Alps in attempt to achieve notoriety and escape a life of poverty. She did it dressed in a skirt, as the aesthetic and moral restrictions of the time demanded

The fellow mountaineer details the frantic 48 hours between her disappearance and the discovery of her remains on Nepal’s Manaslu

The Bivouac de la Fourche on the Italian side of Mont Blanc was the starting point for a 1961 climb that ended in tragedy

The Frenchman has halved previous time for ascending Broad Peak in the Himalayas

A renowned climber was accused of abandoning a teammate while another was forced to fend for himself overnight on the world’s second highest mountain

The Everest business model is being replicated on the world’s second-highest and riskiest mountain, once the exclusive domain of elite mountaineers

German guide and mountaineer David Goettler reached the roof of the planet on May 21 thanks to years of training, state-of-the-art materials and lots of suffering

Belgian climber Seb Berthe, a climate change activist, faced the planet’s hardest wall climb, full of seracs, glaciers and crumbling granite towers

Since 1953, when the first men reached the summit, more than 300 climbers have died on their way to the top of the world’s tallest mountain. A third of these succumbed to the deadly lack of oxygen

Spanish climber Jorge Díaz Rullo spends most of the year living out of a van as he trains to complete his next big goal: to become the second person in the world to finish a 9c-rated route

Friends and family members celebrated the Swiss alpinist’s birthday by watching him scale up a wall that many teenagers would have trouble negotiating

Tomy Aguiló of Argentina and Korra Pesce of Italy sustained a serious accident while climbing the famous Cerro Torre, and only one of them could be saved

Charles Dubouloz endured freezing temperatures and frostbite to join the ranks of the all-time greats by tackling the Rolling Stones route between France and Italy