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 ...

Acquiring the skills and experience to climb and ski a 4,000m peak in the Alps takes a long time. These are very different sports, though they share a common canvas. And the 38-year-old Bruchez has ...

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 ...

Two Austrian mountaineers have died while attempting to summit a 2,500-meter (8,200-foot) peak in Italy's Julian Alps, the mountain rescue service of the Friuli-Venezia Giulia region bordering Austria ...

French ski mountaineering champion Adèle Milloz and an unidentified female companion died on Friday while they were climbing on the Mont-Blance mountain range in the French Alps, according to an ...

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, ...

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. Trentino is expected to make a formal bid to ...