It has been 75 years since the pioneering summit, narrated by Maurice Herzog, whose account hides his fanaticism and nationalist motivations and trivializes mountaineering as a mere battle against the natural environment
The amateur mountaineers will pay over $150,000 per head to climb to the roof of the planet, given over to the promises of noble gas, considered doping in athletics as it is an alternative way of increasing EPO
Inoxtag, a 22-year-old who lived his life online before announcing he would attempt the world’s highest peak, has garnered more than 34 million views with a documentary that covers his journey to the summit
The team that’s accompanying the Spanish trail runner in his attempt to cross the Alps speaks with EL PAÍS. They discuss the logistics involved and the athlete’s special diet as he climbs 59 mountains in just two weeks. ‘He hasn’t lost any weight!’
Amid the Olympic Games in Paris, the deaths of Kazuya Hiraide and Kenro Nakajima on K2 sheds light on the wild essence of an activity in which mistakes are paid for with lives
The free solo is not a recent trend, but a historical mountaineering tradition that modern psychology regards with amazement
More than a century after Robert Falcon Scott’s death, the physiological challenge necessary to follow in the pioneers’ footsteps remains as mysterious as it is complex
A study by the University Savoie Mont Blanc has measured the fall of rocks and ice masses on the two most frequented routes to the roof of Europe, thus delimiting the main objective risks into two black spots
Sports climbers, mountaineers, guides and professionals from the mountaineering world have urged the international federation to boycott any event in the country
The Japanese mountaineer, one of the most celebrated climbers of the 21st century, stars in a new documentary with his partner Kenro Nakajima, which documents the first alpine ascent of the north face of Tirich Mir
Three American climbers, Matt Cornell, Alan Rousseau, and Jackson Marwell, conquered the ‘wall of shadows’ in alpine style, considered one of the impossible challenges in avant-garde mountaineering
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
Next November marks a decade since the passing of the French climber, who paved the way for rising stars such as mountaineer Seb Bouin
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