Óscar Gogorza

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

Marc-André Leclerc died at age 25 after achieving peerless free solo ascents on forbidding walls of rock and ice. A documentary, ‘The Alpinist,’ has pulled him out of anonymity

Three Ukrainian climbers managed the first ascent of the mountain’s southeast ridge, a unique feat that has defied 40 years of attempts

The book by British climber Joe Simpson about his efforts to save Simon Yates on their 1985 descent of Siula Grande raises important questions for the reader

The recent discovery of the remains of three mountaineers on K2 has reignited debate over the lack of a protocol for recovering bodies from the world’s highest peaks

The French researcher talks to EL PAÍS why he believes the Swiss climber’s ascents of Shishapangma and Annapurna are not all they seem

Expert guides Alberto Iñurrategi, Juan Vallejo and Mikel Zabalza save life of man who had been stranded for four days

Mónica Piris has been working since 2007 to help climbers injured trying to scale the world’s highest peak

A total of 55 buildings and a cemetery have been located in Vilcabamba, Peru

Spaniard spent three days and nights at over 8,000m with a broken ankle