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New multipitch climb on Pedra Longa in Sardinia. Mountain guide Josef Hilpold has made the first ascent of 'Giai amus a obiare' (6b, 155m) on Pedra Longa in Sardinia. 18/10/2024. Farewell to Maxim Petrenko, extraordinary Ukrainian climber. From Ukraine comes the terrible news that the extremely talented strong climber Maksym Petrenko was killed ...
Welcome to the new planetmountain website
Sep 11, 2023 · After months and months of development, Planetmountain unveils today its new website featuring a responsive, mobile-friendly layout, a new site navigation and a more pleasent user experience. The project of an online magazine was born in 1996, when the internet - in Italy at least - was in its embryonic stages and the photos we published couldn ...
Ben Moon / The British rock climbing legend interview
Interview with British rock climber Ben Moon, one of the world’s greatest rock climbers throughout the 1980’s and early 1990’s with landmark first ascents such one of Britain’s first 8a, Statement of Youth at Lower Pen Trwyn in Wales and Hubble at Raven Tor, hailed as the world’s first 8c+ and increasingly considered the world’s ...
Nanga Parbat 1970. Reinhold Messner told the truth
1970. 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 ...
Reinhold Messner and Peter Habeler, 40 years ago Everest without ...
Mount Everest, first climbed without supplementary oxygen by Reinhold Messner and Peter Habeler on 8 May 1978. At around 1:15 pm on May 8, 1978, precisely 40 years ago today, Reinhold Messner and Peter Habeler reached the summit of Everest without the use of supplementary oxygen. Up there on the 8848 meter high summit they took some pictures ...
Alpinismo, arrampicata, notizie di montagna su PlanetMountain.com
Bellissima via, una delle vie di più tiri sportive più belle che io abbia mai... Planetmountain.com è un sito che tratta di arrampicata, alpinismo, trekking, vie ferrate, freeride, sci alpinismo, snowboard, racchette da neve, arrampicata su ghiaccio su tutte le montagne del mondo. Contiene inoltre informazioni tecniche sui materiali ...
Remains of Andrew Irvine believed to have been found below …
In September 2024 a National Geographic team comprised of Jimmy Chin, Erich Roepke and Mark Fisher discovered what they believe to be remains of British mountaineer Andrew Irvine. The climber was last seen 100 years ago with George Mallory on the NE Ridge of Everest during their historic attempt to reach the summit of highest mountain in the world. The recent discovery could add new clues to ...
The Last Mountain: the story of Tom Ballard - PlanetMountain.com
In February 2019 30-year-old Tom Ballard and 42-year-old Daniele Nardi perished while attempting to scale Nanga Parbat in winter. Ballard was the son of world-famous mountaineer Alison Hargreaves, reputed to be one of the greatest female climbers of all times who died on K2 in 1995. Their compelling lives are explored in the BBC's The Last ...
Ines Papert and Cory Richards add new route to Kwangde Shar, …
Cory Richards. On 18 January 2009 Ines Papert from Germany and Cory Richards from Canada reached the summit of Kwangde Shar, a 6093m high mountain in the Thame valley in Nepal. The two weaved a new line dubbed 'Cobra Norte' (WI5, M8, TD & R) up the cold north face before joining the French route on the East Ridge and continuing up to the summit.
Breathtaking K2 ascent of Adrian Ballinger and Carla Perez
After finding incredibly stable conditions in the Bottleneck he and his team fixed ropes and successfully climbed K2 with the use of supplementary oxygen just two days after reaching basecamp. A few hours later Ballinger and Perez reached the summit without supplementary oxygen, supported by Esteban Mena, Gelje Pemba Sherpa and Palden Namgye ...