Simon Gietl of Italy has used the low temperatures in the Central Alps to redpoint Lumina, a highly difficult M8 route he had opened solo last April. For the climb, Gietl paired with world champion ...

A French skier has just become the first person to climb and ski every mountain in the Alps higher than 4,000m (12,000 feet). After chipping away at the project for 15 years, Vivian Bruchez scaled the ...

Kilian Jornet has spent his life roaming mountains. It is a passion that borders on obsession, and no human has more effectively mastered the various means by which to traverse them. Where to begin?

One of the most coveted climbs in the Central Alps, it represented a huge leap in terms of quality in Val Masino and even today is often considered one of the most difficult slab climbs in the Alps. A ...

Such moments form the emotionally rich landscape of the new IMAX movie "The Alps," a gorgeous homage to alpine climbing, the Swiss Alps and all of dazzling Switzerland. "The Eiger Obsession," Harlin's ...

The 2026 Winter Olympics are approaching their conclusion. Sunday's closing ceremony will draw the curtain on the Milano Cortina Games and give fans time to look back on an incredible two weeks of ...

The route takes a line on the extreme righthand side of the drip. After a brief 7m vertical start follow a ramp right to the base of the vertical section. Climb another 5 or 6 meters and belay ...