Kalhiltna Base Camp (7200 feet) serves as the staging point for the majority of Denali expeditions, most of which arrive by ski plane from Talkeetna. Photo: Nomdeploom Denali (Mt. McKinley) mountaineering rangers and volunteers assessed 37 pa...
Buckets (5.5). This 2017 photo does not depict the 2024 accident. It does show, however, the total distance that an 11-year-old climber fell in November 2024. Note that the rock is steep and without large ledges or features that might have slowe...
Peter Muambi Naituli climbing the final stretch up to the top of Batian, Mt. Kenya's highest summit. Photo by Gabriel Jackson A stark silhouette of black rock and glistening ice looms over the equator: the central ridgeline of Mt. Kenya, a pe...
From August 13 to 31, 2024, Kilian Jornet Burgada traversed the Alps from east to west by foot and bicycle, reaching all 82 of the 4,000-meter-plus summits. The previous fastest time for this link-up, using no motorized transportation, was 60 da...
Nick Baggaley nearing the final headwall on the east ridge of Stutfield Peak East. Photo by Greg Barrett In the late summer of 2025, after a ton of rain, there were a couple short weather windows for bigger objectives in the high peaks of the...
Shawn Jordan setting out for the 12,800-foot summit of Crosson. Mt. Foraker and the Sultana Ridge are in the background. Photo by Roo Streba Shawn Jordan and I are Tahoe-based skiers who have adventured together throughout the Sierra. The...
On the summit of Felsenbrüder in the Bajdah area. Photo by Daniel Hahn In January 2025, Michael “Michi” Bänsch, Daniel Hahn, and I embarked on an adventurous trip around Saudi Arabia to search for new climbs in a country that has only bee...
Marco Cocito on pitch one (7a) of Evening Coffee (180m, VIII+ max) on Jebel Fokha, Al Hamra Towers. Photo by Riccardo Volpiano Our expedition to Oman in February and March marked the conclusion of the Club Alpino Italiano (CAI) Eagle Team pro...
Photo by Florence Gross Nicole Berthod (Switzerland) and Fay Manners (U.K.) established an 11-pitch route up Jebel Nassrani South in November. The new route ascends the north face of the eastern pillar on Nassrani South, adjacent to the very ...
The Donne Face of Mt. Revelation, showing the Big Easy (white line, Thomson-Vass, 2012) and A New Dawn (de Wilde–Le, 2025). Photo courtesy of ClimbNZ. Tanja de Wilde and Peter Le kicked off the southern summer in the Darran Mountains in Janua...
Panoramic view of the crags above both sides of Ship Island Creek, which drains Ship Island Lake at left and flows down to the Middle Fork Salmon River. Photo by Cody Goldberg For decades, Idaho climbers have imagined what it would be like to...
A Beast the Color of Winter (7 pitches, 800’, IV 5.12b) on the east face of Goat Mountain. Photo by Marc Hanselman After nearly two decades of exploring easy to moderate ridge routes in Idaho’s Pioneer Mountains, in 2012 Drew Daly and I set o...
Lani Chapko during the first ascent of Makluba on Jebel Um Ejil. Photo by Sam Boyce Lani Chapko and I first visited Wadi Rum in 2023 and were immediately enamored with the climbing. Since then, we have made a number of extended visits and hav...
While visiting family in Idaho, I climbed a direct route up the south ridge of Cobb Peak (11,650’) with my dad, Curtis Olson. Beginning at the toe and slightly east of the crest gave access to lower-angle slabs at around 9,400 feet. These provide...
While establishing some routes in Mendoza Canyon, about 45 minutes west of Tucson, I took dramatic pictures of the nearly 1,000-foot northwest face of a formation called the Potato (5,676’), which had a couple of old routes on its east face but ...
New routes on the Sky Blue Spires: (1) Hawg Ripper (along left skyline), (2) Bofa Spire, (3) The Conclavity, (4) Spankin’ the Marmot (a.k.a. Andrew’s Crack), and (5) Journey to the Center of the Earth. Photo by Daniel Dunn In July, Andrew Tum...
The Iridescent Wall, located on a spur of Mt. Le Conte, and the approximate lines of (1) Boots on the Moon (2020), (2) Buns of Steel (2025), (3) Space Force (2018), and (4) Iridescent Flow (2020). Photo by Dave Nettle Two weeks before Brando...
Stoned Ape Hypothesis (18 pitches, VI 5.13a A0), seen from the foot of the 2,000-foot east face of Keeler Needle (ca 14,260’). The new line lies mostly to the right of the classic Harding Route. Photo by Myles Moser On July 7, Harry Kinnard a...
The route line for Hummingbird on Sentinel Rock. Photo by Taylor Martin While working for Yosemite Search and Rescue from May to October, Taylor Martin established four long first ascents on four different formations: Hummingbird on Sentinel ...
A thin hooking section above Balin’s Roof on Cardiac Arrest. Photo by Tom Evans The white noise of rain on the fly gradually turned into an all-encompassing deluge as the runoff became a waterfall washing onto my portaledge. I didn’t sleep mu...