Christian Kuntner dies after being hit by an avalanche on Annapurna. Mario Panzeri, Mario Merelli, Daniele Bernasconi, Ed Viesturs from America and Veikka Gustafsson all reach the summit of Annapurna, ...

As the winter climbing season draws to a close in the Himalayas, two avalanches rocketed down the steep slopes of Annapurna over the weekend above Camp 2. The first avalanche missed the only ...

The news was announced on Nepalese television yesterday: 7 French mountaineers/trekkers and 11 Nepalese Sherpa have been killed by an avalanche at Kang Guru Base Camp. Kang Guru lies in the Manang ...

If he had been 5 or 10 minutes ahead, the avalanche would certainly have caught him. It was a gigantic serac collapse. Winter Annapurna 2024, with a crevasse in the foreground and behind ...

Annapurna I became the sixth 8,000 peak climbed ... Anatoli Boukreev and Dmitri Sobolev, perished in an avalanche.

In one of the most audacious, yet perfectly executed, climbs, Ueli Steck soloed a new route on the south face of Annapurna in 2013. The new route climbs the wide depression/gully between the 1970 ...

In one of the most audacious, yet perfectly executed, climbs, Ueli Steck soloed a new route on the south face of Annapurna in 2013. The new route climbs the wide depression/gully between the 1970 ...

Elite mountaineer Alex Txikon from Lemoa (Basque Country) has climbed 11 of the 14 8,000-meter peaks – the highest mountains in the world. Txikon, embarking on his 11th winter expedition in the ...