3+ day, 12+ hour ago   (303+ words) New for Spring 2027: ‘Behind the Ranges’ Rethinks Canadian Mountaineering Gripped Climbing Magazine New for Spring 2027, Behind the Ranges, published by UBC Press, and written by Zac Robinson and Stephen Slemon offers a new history of mountaineering in the Canadian West,…...

4+ day, 21+ hour ago   (348+ words) The “Oppenheimer of Mountain Climbing” Has Arrived gripped.com A new feature film about legendary Sherpa Tenzing Norgay is bringing one of mountaineering’s most important stories to the big screen this fall. Tenzing, directed by Jennifer Peedom, follows Norgay and…...

4+ day, 22+ hour ago   (702+ words) High above the Valais valley in Switzerland, the 2,985m Petit Clocher du Portalet rises as a steep granite spire into the Alps. Histoire sans Fin (8b+, 200m) is one of the hardest free-climbing routes on the spire and a major test of hard…...

5+ day, 22+ hour ago   (202+ words) Gripped Climbing Magazine Last fall, American climber and skier Jim Morrison, 50, made mountaineering history by summiting Everest and completing the first successful ski descent of the mountain’s Superdirect route, linking the Hornbein and Japanese Couloirs. The Oct. 15 descent followed a…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (196+ words) Gripped Climbing Magazine On June 21, the summer solstice, French climbers Hugo Parmentier and Esteban Daligault set out to free the three hardest routes on the Grand Capucin in the Mont Blanc massif in under 24 hours. They began at 5:10 a.m. on the…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (208+ words) Spanish climbers Eneko and Iker Pou and their Peruvian partner Micher Quito have established two new routes on the northwest face of 6,162m Ranrapalca in Peru’s Cordillera Blanca, first climbing the face in 2023 and returning this year to open what they…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (131+ words) The Most Epic Alpine Climbs of 2025, According to the Piolets d’Or Gripped Climbing Magazine The Piolets d’Or has released its 2025 list of significant ascents, a wide-ranging selection of some of the year’s most notable and innovative climbing achievements from around…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (570+ words) Gripped Climbing Magazine Alex Megos made the first ascent of two V14 (8B+) boulders in Norway – Norwegian Sky and Schattenspiel – within a few days. Norwegian Sky is crimpy and very dynamic with a huge throw on immaculate, wavy rock. Schattenspiel is more…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (365+ words) During the summer of 1967, together with his compatriot Michl Meier, he was invited to Chamonix by the ENSA. On this occasion, they went on to repeat, on Mont Blanc, the Bonatti–Gobbi route on the Grand Pilier d’Angle and the…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (332+ words) Gripped Climbing Magazine Alpine climbers Thomas Huber, Miquel Mas and Víctor Sans have established Wild Soul, a 600-metre, 21-pitch 5.12 A2+ on Biacherahi Central (5,700 metres) above the Choktoi Glacier in the Latok region of Pakistan’s Karakoram. They believe was the first ascent…...