Slovenian climber Janja Garnbret becomes the first woman to complete “Bibliographie,” 9b+ at Ceuse
Janja Garnbret has just completed “Bibliographie,” a 9b+ route, in Céüse, in France. The Slovenian climber has made the first female ascent of this major route, which was established by Alex Megos in 2020. She also becomes only the second woman to reach the 9b+ grade (5.15c), after Brooke Raboutou. An extraordinary achievement. For a long time, she focused her talent solely on competition: Janja...
Skiing down Lhotse without bottled oxygen: Bartek Ziemski’s feat
On May 12, Bartek Ziemski reached the summit of Lhotse, at 8,516 meters, before strapping on his skis to descend to base camp via the extremely steep west couloir, dubbed “the dream line” by the first and only other skiers—Americans—in 2018. Without supplemental oxygen, without a Sherpa, and without fixed ropes installed all the way to the summit, in extremely difficult snow conditions, the...
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How cargo drones are changing the game on Everest (except this year)
At Everest Base Camp, the logistics are enormous. They determine the opening of the normal route, the setting up of the Icefall and the higher camps for several hundred climbers, with more than 400...
Mont Blanc Record Falls by Two Minutes to French Ski Mountaineers Matheo Jacquemoud and Samuel Equy
On Saturday, April 25, 2026, the margin between history and almost-history on Mont Blanc came down to just two minutes. French ski mountaineers Mathéo Jacquemoud, 35, and Samuel Equy, 29, completed...
American Climber Connor Herson repeats Bon Voyage 9a/E12 in Annot, France
The music plays softly, punctuated by the occasional whimper of a dog at the base of the cliff, while Connor Herson calmly learns the moves on the Bon Voyage route in Annot, France, rated 9a (E12)...
A Flurry of FKTs for the Legendary Chamonix-Zermatt
That’s the thing about records and FKT – Fastest Known Times : they’re meant to be broken, even on the most famous ski race in the Alps. The recent women’s record set by American born and...
The Dark Wizard, Dean Potter, the Yosemite legendary climber, a new HBO serie
The Dark Wizard : this is the title of a four-part documentary series HBO has dedicated to Yosemite legend Dean Potter, who died in a wingsuit accident in 2015. A gifted climber and lover of...
Freeski Master Candide Thovex leading the way in Tignes
If you’ve ever complained about spring snow conditions, you won’t be doing so anymore after watching Candide Thovex ski in his new video, which focuses on “tufs”—steep, snow-covered slopes in the...
Twenty-four hours of climbing on Torre del Paine: Tommy Caldwell and Siebe Vanhee’s successful epic challenge
It is one of the most impressive big walls on the planet: the Torre Centrale del Paine in Chile has been the scene of some very significant climbs. But free climbs, particularly on the South African...
The call of silence: Mathieu Blanchard’s rendezvous with cold and solitude in the Yukon
In the vast white expanse of the northern part of Canada, Mathieu Blanchard pulls his pulka through temperatures of minus 40 Celsius degrees. He pushes himself to his limits in the Yukon Arctic...
Grossglockner tragedy: mountaineer convicted for abandoning his climbing partner
In January, 2025, on the ridge of the Grossglockner, at an altitude of 3,798 meters, Kerstin Gurtner died of hypothermia after being left alone by her companion, just a few dozen meters from the...
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From Everest to Depression : Cory Richards, His Journey To Calm The Chaos Within
He climbed Everest without oxygen, and completed the first winter ascent of Gasherbrum II. A Nat Geo photographer and himalayist, Cory Richards is a survivor in more ways than one. His...
Painting the mountains, full movie
The Patagonian mountains attract the best climbers, but more rarely skiers, and for good reason: the tawny granite spires that streak across the skies of El Chalten are big walls where there is...
Ice climbing : the new guidebook for Briancon, the French Ice Climbing Mecca
350 pages, 850 ice and mixed routes: it’s been a long wait, but not in vain! Twenty years have passed since the previous topo, and now the new guidebook for ice climbing around Briancon,...
Their First Ascent: how they do it… and how they tell it
It’s a popular drawing by French artist Samivel published in his collection Sous l’oeil des choucas in 1937. The first box of the strip shows two mountaineers climbing a small, debonair...
