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 ...

European mountain guides are cancelling climbs up some of the most iconic peaks in the Alps, including Mont Blanc and the Matterhorn, as a series of heat waves and rapidly melting glaciers have made ...

Authorities said it's unclear what caused them to fall, proposing that it might have been the result of human error or a potential rockslide Getty Two Austrian ...

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 ...

The 2025 Tour of the Alps will again be packed with short but intense mountain stages as it winds from Trentino in Italy to Lienz in Austria in late April. The five-day Tour of Alps is considered a ...

Located high up in the Excalibur sector, the overhanging Ben Hur was established in 1997 by Swiss climbers Mike Schwitter and Andy Maag with long run-outs and few bolts. 12 years after the ascent and ...

Nicolas Favresse, Sébastien Berthe, Damien Largeron and their dogs Bintje and Krou during their month-long bike and climbing trip across the Alps Planetmountain.com is a site about climbing, ...

Anderl Heckmair, a German mountain guide who led the first team to conquer the notorious north face of the Eiger in the Swiss Alps, has died, his publisher said Wednesday. He was 98. Heckmair died ...