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WEBGraian Alps - Mont Blanc. Haute-Savoie France. 17/09/2024 - Nicholas Hobley - Monte Colodri. 09/09/2024 - Matteo Bicego - Cima d'Auta. PlanetMountain.com specialised in alpinism, climbing, trekking, ski mountaineering via ferrata in the mountains from the Dolomites to the Alps, Mont Blanc, Matterhorn, Patagonia, Everest, K2, Himalaya.
Action Directe, Wolfgang Güllich's 25-year-old Frankenjura …
WEBSep 14, 1991 · Action Directe was established by Wolfgang Güllich on 14 September 1991 at Waldkopf in Germany's Frankenjura. The route set new new standards in sport climbing and now, precisely twenty-five years after the first ascent, Planetmountain.com takes a step back in time to discover more about one of the most famous sport climbs in the world and the man who made it happen.
Eternal Flame, Nameless Tower, Trango Towers, Karakoram
WEBEternal Flame, Nameless Tower, Trango Towers, Karakoram, Eternal Flame is a world-famous multi-pitch route up the Nameless Tower in the famous granite Trango group in Pakistan's Karakorum mountain range. It was established in 1989 by an extremely strong German team comprised of Kurt Albert, Wolfgang Güllich, Christof Stiegler and Milan Sykora and after an immense effort at over 6000m they ...
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WEB16/09/2024 - Alpinism. Piolets d'Or 2024 announces "big list" of Significant Ascents. The organisers of the Piolet d’Or mountaineering award have published the 'big list' of most significant and innovative climbs carried out in 2023. The honoured ascents will receive the Piolets d'Or 2024 award during the celebration at San Martino di...
Alfredo Webber climbs 9a aged 48, Thunder Ribes at Massone
WEBAt 48 years of age Alfredo Webber sends his first 9a, Thunder Ribes at Massone, Arco. Matteo Pavana. "Matteo you just won't get it. Sending 9a at my age, apart from being a dream, is such an impossible thought. I grew up when 9a was a mystical grade, it seems like yesterday when I first saw the photo of Wolfgang Güllich climbing Action Directe.
Nanga Parbat 1970. Reinhold Messner told the truth
WEB1970. The brothers Reinhold and Günther Messner climb Nanga Parbat's virgin Rupal Face and carry out the first descent of the unclimbed Diamir Face. Günther Messner perishes during the descent. Reinhold searches for his brother in vain then, alone and completely exhausted, reaches a group of herdsmen. The other expedition memebers have ...
Seb Bouin explores the climbing at Champsaur in France
WEBThe fourth episode of Sébastien Bouin's Hidden Gems climbing series explores the crag La Champsaur in France. Seb Bouin climbing at Champsaur in France. 'This wall is one of the most stunning and scary I’ve seen.It looks like Yosemite, but it's sandstone...'. "The next step of our Hidden Gems tour is a new wall in the French Alps.
Voennikh Topografov South Face in Tien Shan climbed by Dmitry ...
WEBDmitry Golovchenko, Dmitry Grigoriev and Sergey Nilov, the acclaimed trio of Russian mountaineers who have numerous gruelling first ascents to their name such as Moveable Feast on the north face of Thalay Sagar in the Indian Himalaya, have endured another testing climb together, this time on the south face of Voennikh Topografov 6873m in the Tian-Shan massif.
Cerro Torre's immense rime ice mushroom avalanche
WEBFeb 27, 2020 · Italy's Matteo Della Bordella had mentioned it only recently in his trip report concerning the first repeat of the 40º Gruppo Ragni route on Aguja Poincenot carried out with Matteo Bernasconi and Matteo Pasquetto: from the summit the three watched in awe as a huge rime ice mushroom collapsed and triggered an avalanche on Cerro Torre "shattering into a thousand pieces below and creating a huge ...
Via Comici - Dimai - Cima Grande di Lavaredo
WEBEmilio Comici, Giuseppe & Angelo Dimai, 13-14/08/1933. First solo ascent: Emilio Comici 02/09/1937. Via Comici Dimai is the classic example of rock climbing in the Dolomites. Although difficult if climbed without using aid, its popularity is justified by …