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Gasherbrum I, historic Polish first winter ascent and drama for …
WEBWhile the time had finally come last Friday to celebrate the success, truly historic, of the coveted first winter ascent of Gasherbrum I by a Polish expedition led by Artur Hajzer, on the south face of the mountain an international expedition led by Gerfried Göschl launched the alarm that three alpinists – Göschl, the Pakistani high altitude porter Nisar Hussain and Cedric Hahlen from ...
The Birth of British Sport Climbing in Statement of Youth
WEBThe film Statement of Youth / The Birth of British Sport Climbing directed by Nick Brown featuring Jerry Moffatt, Ben Moon, Chris Gore, Andy Pollitt, Martin Atkinson, Mark Pretty, Craig Smith, Steve Lewis, Mark Leach, Ed Douglas. At the start of the 80’s sport climbing was in its embryonic stages.
Video: retreating Mer de Glace, Mont Blanc’s largest glacier
WEBOct 7, 2017 · The video by Bertrand Delpierre illustrating the retreat of the Mer de Glace glacier in the Mont Blanc massif. Mer de Glace, the largest glacier in the Mont Blanc massif, continues its relentless retreat. A walk down the steps from the Montenvers station highlights all too clearly how much the snout has melted and retreated in recent decades ...
Video: The legendary Yosemite Valley drug plane crash
WEBThis clip features in the award-winning feature documentary Valley Uprising by Nick Rosen, Peter Mortimer and Josh Lowell. Yosemite Drug Plane Crash - Climbers Get Rich! An excerpt from the award-winning film 'Valley Uprising' that documents one of the most legendary moments in Yosemite climbing history: the 1977 drug plane crash.
Watch Pete Whittaker free solo Kjerag in Norway
WEBAfter months of preparation and years of waiting for precisely the right moment, on 17 August 2020 Britain’s Pete Whittaker soloed the Renshaw/Foulkes route on Kjerag in Norway. The 800m line was established in July 1985 by Lyndsey Foulkes and Adam Renshaw and although the difficulties check in at no more than E3, it is clear that with a route of this magnitude, technical difficulties are ...
Ski mountaineering in Turkey's Aladağlar mountains
WEBAladaglar is a part of Anti-Taurus mountains in southern Turkey and geologically is slightly reminiscent of the Dolomites. It is a bit higher though, with mountains reaching almost 3800 meters and obviously a lot wilder, with no mountain rescue service and no mountains huts. Since the starting points are quite low there, summit trips are very ...
Peter Habeler, 74, climbs Eiger North Face again with David Lama
WEBTimeless mountaineering: aged 74 Peter Habeler, one of the world’s greatest mountaineers who in 1978 made the first ascent of Everest without supplementary oxygen together with Reinhold Messner, has now climbed the North Face of the Eiger once again. In 1974 Habeler had climbed the mountain in record time with Messner, while now he repeated the route with another world famous alpinist, young ...
Valhalla, the film of Edu Marin climbing the Getu Grand Arch in …
WEBIn 2018 and 2019 Spanish rock climber Edu Marin created what can only be regarded as one of the hardest and most overhanging multi-pitch rock climbs in the world.Called Valhalla, the 380m route first climbs up, then diagonally through, the huge Grand Arch at Getu in China and was first ascended with the help of Edu’s father Francisco "Novato" and his brother Álex.
Gruelling Canyonlands crack climbed by Pete Whittaker, Tom Randall
WEBafter their first ascent of Black Mamba, a 5.14b trad crack climb in The Canyonlands, USA. Britain's Pete Whittaker and Tom Randall are back in Canyonlands, USA, where in 2011 they made the first ascent the spectacular Century Crack. Hailed at the time as one of, of not the, most difficult roof cracks in the world, it was repeated in October ...