The summer season ends soon, but there are still some good days ahead to climb Mont Blanc. If conditions are right, it is a relatively straightforward climb. At the same time, its 4,809m are not to be ...

A very demanding route which requires a good level of familiarity with drytooling and placing gear. It has the potential of becoming a classic route in its genre. Compared to the world famous Digital ...

Speed climber Filip Babicz took advantage of the first ice of the season in the Alps, opening what he described as a "modern mixed" M7 route on the NE face of the Petit Flambeau, a classic spire in ...

With chaos and geopolitical challenges in Russia, climbing one of the renowned Seven Summits is largely on hold. Mt. Elbrus, which stands 18,510 ft., is the highest mountain in Europe and one of the ...

Jornet, one of the world’s most accomplished mountaineers and a former record-holder in Alaska’s Mount Marathon race, did ...

Joseph Vallot and his team of guides and porters climb Mont Blanc in 1906. Their ascent will take three days. They spent their nights at the Grands Mulets refuge and the Grand Plateau refuge. This is ...

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Eleven-year-old Papik (nickname for Yannick Vallençant) dreams of climbing Mont Blanc with his father, Patrick Vallençant. After serious training, the adventure begins: they set off from the summit of ...

Cyril Dupuy, the founder of smart telescope maker Vaonis, has set a new record by capturing Europe's highest-altitude image of the sun with one of the company's telescopes during an expedition to ...