The Phoenix solo – Alex Honnold interview and rare Ray Jardine …
网页American climber Alex Honnold has soloed The Phoenix (5.13a) in Yosemite Valley. The news spread like wildfire across the climbing globe yesterday, and understandably so since The Phoenix is one of those cult routes which have left their mark on generations of climbers worldwide. First ascended by Ray Jardine and John Lakey in 1977, this fierce ...
Adam Ondra talks Silence, the hardest route in the world
网页Adam Ondra collection. Almost two years have passed since Adam Ondra established Silence, the world’s first 9c and the most difficult sport climb on the planet featuring a crazy inverted 8C boulder crux after 25 meters of 8b+ climbing through the Flatanger cave in Norway. Since the 26-year-old is currently injured, for his weekly video series ...
Gasherbrum I, historic Polish first winter ascent and drama for …
网页At 08:30 local time on 09/03/2012 the summit of Gasherbrum 1 (Karakorum, Pakistan) was reached for the first time in winter by the Polish mountaineers Adam Bielecki and Janusz Golab. On the same day the alpinists Gerfried Göschl, Nisar Hussain and Cedric Hahlen were seen for the last time on the same mountain.
Changabang West Wall repeated after 46 years by Daniel Joll, Kim ...
网页The legendary West Wall of Changabang in India's Garhwal Himalaya, first climbed by Britain's Peter Boardman and Joe Tasker over 25 days in autumn 1976, has finally been repeated after a 46-year hiatus by Kim Ladiges and Matthew Scholes from Australia and Daniel Joll from New Zealand. At the time of the first ascent the climb was hailed as ...
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网页Filip Babicz races up and down the 4 Matterhorn ridges in under 8 hours. On 01/09/2024 the Italian-Polish mountaineer Filip Babicz climbed the four ridges of the Matterhorn in 7 hours 43 minutes and 45 seconds. Furggen Ridge ascent, Hörnli Ridge descent, Zmutt Ridge ascent and Lion's Ridge descent, without external support and gear...
Alexander Huber rope-solo first ascent of Mauerläufer 8b+ up …
网页1 / 3. Alexander Huber making the first ascent of Mauerläufer (200m, 8b+) up Waidringer Steinplatte in Austria. Archiv Huberbuam. Last spring Alexander Huber forged a difficult new alpine sports climb up the smooth limestone crag called Steinplatte high above Waidringer in Austria's Tyrol. The route follows an intricate line through the ...
Alex Honnold: super solo on the Yosemite Triple
网页The news couldn't have made bigger waves: in Yosemite Alex Honnold has soloed the Triple Crown. This in its own right would be massive news, but there is more, since the 27-year-old climber from Sacramento linked Mount Watkins, El Capitan and Half Dome in a single, lightening fast push. More than 2000 meters of (difficult) granite face climbing.
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网页06/09/2024 - Alpinism. Filip Babicz races up and down the 4 Matterhorn ridges in under 8 hours. On 01/09/2024 the Italian-Polish mountaineer Filip Babicz climbed the four ridges of the Matterhorn in 7 hours 43 minutes and 45 seconds. Furggen Ridge ascent, Hörnli Ridge descent, Zmutt Ridge ascent and Lion's Ridge descent, without external ...
Davo Karnicar, skiing down The Ultimate Ride on Everest
网页Everest is by far the highest mountain in the world. The Earth Goddess of all mountains. The inspiration for all those who have stood on her summit. In our freerider soul it is the supreme descent, the ultimate ride. Davo Karnikar became the first person to carry out the complete ski descent of Everest. The 38-year-old Slovenian talks to us ...
Remembering Jerzy Kukuczka, the legendary Polish mountaineer
网页With Artur Hajzer, 13/10/1988. Freedom Climbers by Bernadette McDonald. 30 years today: on 24 October 1989, Polish mountaineer Jerzy Kukuczka died while attempting Lhotse. Kukuczka was the second man to climb all fourteen eight-thousanders after Reinhold Messner and an absolute legend of high altitude Himalayan mountaineering.