We offer an ice climbing adventure in the area of Skakavitsa, which will give you the opportunity to try climbing on frozen waterfalls, to do something exciting and relax from the daily ...
Traverse of Mont Blanc (4808m) by Тhe Тhree Mont Blanc route considered to be one of the most beautiful routes to the peak and descent by the Normal route by Gouter Hut. We strive to off ...
Vitosha mountain is a small mountain, rising above Sofia, one of the favourite places of the citizens of the capital. Though not very high it still has its charm and beauty. It is the ho ...
We offer a cycling tour in Central Sredna Gora through the most beautiful places in the region. The tour starts from the town of Koprivshtitsa, passes through the Barikadite site, Bqlo K ...
Dual-point crampon for ice and mixed climbing
A version of the DART for those who prefer the added stability and holding power of two front points.
* Horizontal structure place ...
An introduction to rock climbing for the novice and (slightly worried) would-be climber: If you have never climbed before, your views on it will probably include some or all of the following: 1) I ...
Photos by Bulgarian lawyer turned professional photographer Ruslan Vakrilov - In this gallery Vakrilov captures a handful of localy famous Bulgarians, a few Brits and his girlfriend on a collectio ...
With ascents of F9a sport routes and loads of hard sport and trad onsighting, Steve McClure is not your average climber. He's an athlete, a man who trains his body hard and pushes himself physical ...
Andreas Proft is from Saxony in the east of Germany and spends his summers climbing in the famous and feared Elbsandstein; the stunning sandstone towers that are renowned for their huge run-outs a ...
Outdoors enthusiasts love to quantify their pursuits. Kayakers measure difficulty with a I-VI class system; BASE jumpers use meters and seconds; even skiers have the D System for quantifying risk, ...
Here's a video of Norwegian climber Magnus Midtboe's training regimen, including one-finger pull-ups and one-armed pull-ups with weights. Midtboe has climbed up to 5.15b (Ali Hulk, Rodellar, Spain ...
Shot in the beginning of November 2011 this short video follows Emiliyan Kolevski in his attempts to realize few of the hardest boulder problems in Rila Mountain National Park.
A whole bunch of climbers from Finland got together in June 2011 and headed all the way down to South Africa to the legendary Rocklands Boulders. Here is a highlight reel of some of the problems t ...
Colin Haley had a productive start to his annual Patagonia season, completing a first ascent on Cerro Standhardt and a solo ascent of Aguja Innominata. Arriving in Chalten, Argentina, at the tail end of a good weather window, Haley warmed up by nearly soloing the south face of Cerro Pollone, a route that apparently had been unrepeated since its first ascent in 1949, despite only brief difficulties. On N ...
Adam Ondra has made the second ascent of Gioia in Varazze, Italy, and confirmed its V16 grade. Christian Core established the boulder problem in 2008 after spending four months working out the moves. Gioia ("Joy" in English) is 14 moves long with terrible feet, with a stand start that goes at around V12/13. Ondra had sent the stand start in January 2011 very quickly—"About 30 minutes," he says. "It is v ...
Spanish climbers Jordi Corominas and Elena Parga have completed the probable first ascent of the southwest face of Cho Polu, a 6,695-meter (21,965') peak in the Khumbu region of Nepal. The two climbed alpine-style and spent four days round-trip on the route, which ascends a steep snow and ice face for about 3,300 feet to a col. From here, Corominas soloed the final 1,000 feet to the summit. He believes ...
On November 11, David Gottlieb and Chad Kellogg made the first ascent of Nepal's Pangbuk Ri (6716m) in fifty hours, camp to camp. They reached the summit via the South Face (VI, AI5, M5,1400m) in just over twenty-six hours of climbing. Then the pair descended the face opposite the one they climbed, before hallucinating their way through a ten mile hike back to their base camp.
On November 16, Canadians Sonnie Trotter and Will Stanhope repeated Leo Houlding's famed route The Prophet (5.13dR, 600m) on El Cap. Trotter and Stanhope spent five weeks in Yosemite Valley working the route, before completing a ground-up free ascent in a three-day push that fell on both of their birthdays.
Britons Mick Fowler and Dave Turnbull have completed the first ascent of Gojung (aka Mugu Chuli, 6,310m/20,702') in western Nepal. The two climbers took four days to climb the peak via a striking ice couloir that slashes across the steep west face from right to left. Hit by a storm on top, they needed another three days to traverse northward over a 6,264-meter sub-summit, and then descend to the west to ...
Petzl's annual RocTrip ended with a bang this past weekend in the Getu Valley, China: Spanish climber Dani Andrada succeeded on an eight-pitch, 5.14b first ascent he called Corazon de Ensueño. In an interview with Petzl, Andrada said he spent 11 days of cleaning and bolting, but he only needed three days to free-climb all pitches separately. On Saturday, belayed by Chris Sharma, Andrada finished the rou ...
Austrian mountaineer Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner has summited K2 today by the rarely climbed north ridge, a classy finish to her quest to be the first woman to climb all 14 of the world's 8,000-meter peaks without supplemental oxygen. Kaltenbrunner summited in early evening, Pakistan time, closely followed by her companions Vassiliy Pivtsov, Darek Zaluski, and Maxut Zhumayev. The summit was reached after 6 p ...
Kazakh climbers Gennady Durov and Denis Urubko have climbed a difficult new route on the huge north face of 7,439-meter Pobeda Peak in Kyrgyzstan. The new line tackles steep ground to the right of the historic Dollar Route, climbed in 1982. Durov and Urubko took six days to climb their route (Russian grade 6B, with difficulties up to 5.9/5.10 M5), summiting in the evening of August 15. The two men accli ...
June 25, a team led by Alexander Odintsov climbed a new route on the west face of Latok III (6949m). Odintsov and team members Alexey Lonchinskiy, Ivan Dozhdev and Eugeniy Dmitrenko began this expedition on June 10, establishing nine camps in their fifteen-day climb. Two days after reaching the summit, the team returned to base camp. This climb caps an eleven year bid for the west face of Latok III. Pri ...
The elegant pyramid of 6,376m Grosvenor in the Minya Konka Range of China's Daxue Shan received its third and fourth ascents by new routes on opposite sides of the mountain. Following widespread publication of photos by Japanese explorer Tamotsu Nakamura, Grosvenor received a ...
Denis Burdet and Stephan Siegrist (Switzerland), David Lama (Austria) and the American climber/photographer Robert Frost have made the second ascent of India's Cerro Kishtwar. This spectacular rock and ice peak of the Eastern Kishtwar Himalaya, in the troubled region of Kashm ...
Dan Varian has made the long-awaited second ascent of Andy Earl's The Dark Side at Back Bowden Doors, Northumberland. The steep sandstone route was first climbed by Andy Earl back in October of 2003 and is graded E9 7b.
Shawn Raboutou has climbed Welcome to Tijuana (5.14b) in Rodellar, Spain, marking the 13-year-old's first climb of the grade. Raised by hardcore climbers and former world champions Robyn Erbesfield-Raboutou and Didier Raboutou, Shawn has been climbing in Europe with his family this summer. Earlier this summer, Shawn climbed Persifleur (5.13+) a ...
Mikhail Mikhaylov and Alexander Ruchkin have made the first ascent of the main summit of the Shark's Teeth, spectacular granite spires on Greenland's East Coast. The Shark's Teeth are located in the south east corner of Renland, part of the Greenland mainland immediately nort ...
27 year old Swiss climber Dani Arnold has speed soloed the North Face of the Eiger in 2 hours and 28 minutes. Arnold, who lives in the Swiss town of Burglen, has been climbing since he was 14 years old. The young mountain guide has previously made a speed solo of the 36 pitch ...
Not wasting any time, Adam Ondra has climbed Chilam Balam, Spaniard Bernabe Fernández's controversial route in Villanueva del Rosario, Spain. Fernández claimed the first ascent in July 2003 and proposed the unprecedented grade of 5.15c (at the time, Chris Sharma's Realization ...
Clint Helander and Scotty Vincik have completed the first ascent of Mt. Mausolus in the Revelation Mountains, at the far southwestern end of the Alaska Range. At 9,170 feet (2,795m), Mausolus is diminutive by Alaskan standards, but its complex west face rises 4,500 feet, with ...
After having the best climbing trip ever, Ondra outdid himself by grabbing the first ascent of Chris Sharma's 5.15b project, Shaxi Raxi, in Oliana, Spain, on Sunday. He also onsighted Blanquita (5.14c), his sixth 14c onsight in less than two weeks. Not only did he climb both ...
For expedition mountaineers, Koflach’s “plastic” double boots were mandatory footwear on any trip. The iconic white Ultra, introduced in 1980, and then the yellow Arctic Expe, which replaced it in 1993, were wide and comfortable in the forefoot and known for their indestructibility and warmth. Unlike leather outer boots, Koflachs didn’t freeze ...
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