Traffic jams on K2 peak: 145 climbers reach the top in a single day
The Everest business model is being replicated on the world’s second-highest and riskiest mountain, once the exclusive domain of elite mountaineers
Agony with every step: Alone without an oxygen bottle at the top of the Everest
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
A two-and-a-half month journey to climb the most difficult route in Yosemite, only to fail on the last move
Belgian climber Seb Berthe, a climate change activist, faced the planet’s hardest wall climb, full of seracs, glaciers and crumbling granite towers
Climbing Everest: How the body breaks down at high altitude
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
The nomadic life of an elite climber
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
Marcel Rémy: The infinite passion of a 99-year-old climber
Friends and family members celebrated the Swiss alpinist’s birthday by watching him scale up a wall that many teenagers would have trouble negotiating
Life and death in Patagonia: The toughest decision to make in a mountain rescue
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
How a French mountain guide managed first solo winter ascent of perilous Grandes Jorasses
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
The best mountain climber of the century was an unknown young Canadian
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
Annapurna III: The great mountaineering challenge of the 20th century is finally conquered
Three Ukrainian climbers managed the first ascent of the mountain’s southeast ridge, a unique feat that has defied 40 years of attempts
‘Touching the Void’: Would you cut the rope to survive?
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
What should be done with the corpses of climbers in the Himalayas?
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
Mountaineering expert Rodolphe Popier: ‘I think Ueli Steck lied’
The French researcher talks to EL PAÍS why he believes the Swiss climber’s ascents of Shishapangma and Annapurna are not all they seem
Spanish climbers pull off miraculous rescue of Italian on Himalayan mountain
Expert guides Alberto Iñurrategi, Juan Vallejo and Mikel Zabalza save life of man who had been stranded for four days
The Spanish doctor with a surgery on Mount Everest
Mónica Piris has been working since 2007 to help climbers injured trying to scale the world’s highest peak
Spanish team finds Inca ruins that may have been site of human sacrifice
A total of 55 buildings and a cemetery have been located in Vilcabamba, Peru
Alpinist Juanjo Garra loses life on descent of Nepal’s Dhaulagiri
Spaniard spent three days and nights at over 8,000m with a broken ankle