James Wieman starting the 5.10 R sixth pitch of Time. Wieman and various partners made eight trips to the wall to complete the line. Photo by Arturo Calvo It was in 2015, upon moving to Rockville, near Zion National Park, that I first envisio...
The Particle Accelerator Couloir on the southeast face of Mt. Beulah (12,516’). During the ascent, John Climaco stopped climbing approximately 150 feet below the summit, as the terrain above did not look to be skiable. The XXs mark the two short...
Daryl Miller in 1995 as he and Mark Stasik finished the first winter circumnavigation of Denali and Foraker: 45 days, 350 miles. This was not for work but a private endeavor. Photo Courtesy Family Daryl Raymond Miller, a pioneering Denali mou...
The west face of Meru above the Kirti Glacier, seen from Thalay Sagar, with the 2006 route marked in red and the 2023 variations in blue. (A) Meru North (6,450m). (B) Meru Central (6,310m). (C) Meru Main (South, 6,672m). Photo courtesy of Meru G...
Point Walkers (left) and the Cathedral seen from the upper Satling Glacier. The east ridge of Point Walkers is marked. Photo by Mirjam Limmer The Satling Glacier, an easterly tributary of the Phatling Glacier, south of Thalay Sagar, was first...
Snowy Peak 10 (ca 6,040m) from the north, above Kalapari Lake. To the left is horizontal-topped D 42. Both appear to be unclimbed. Photo by Zeeshan Mushtaq Over five days in August 2024, Yuvaraj Jothi, Zeeshan Mushtaq, and Vikram Raman follow...
Shar Mathias above the upper Spang Nala Glacier, having completed a long day linking three peaks around the rim. In the distance is Chomotang (6,065m). Photo by Oak Jones In July, Oak Jones and I, inspired by a report in AAJ 2020, embarked up...
Sandwiched between steep terrain, this leftward traverse on Le Clin d'Oeil gained the upper snowfield on the northwest face of the Dent Blanche. The sun is about to set, and it is time to look for a bivouac at the end of the first day. Photo by ...
Rendering of Mt. Everest from the west. (1) The “Super Direct” descent of the Hornbein and Japanese couloirs on the north face in Tibet. (2) The southeast ridge and Western Cwm descent in Nepal. (A) Rongbuk Glacier. (B) South Col. (C) Khumbu Ice...
In 2015, Archil Badriashvili soloed the first traverse of the Chaukhi Range, crossing 11 summits above 3,500 meters, with one bivouac. He started with Javakhishvili, looped east and south over a handful of peaks, including Asatiani and Pirosmani, ...
The east face of Asatiani is on the left, showing the 2024 route (yellow line) and 2016 route (blue line, first ascent of the face. The east face of Archil Peak, with the 2025 route in red, the first ascent of the peak. Photo by Giorgi Tepnadze ...
Vetle Sevild leading pitch 12 of En tåre for Mikaelsson. Photo by Martin Andersen The island of Kvaløya lies just outside the Arctic city of Tromsø. Solid granite walls here, such as Baugen and Store Blåmann, have gained international attenti...
The southeast ridge of Chadwickryggen gave 1,100 meters of rock, mixed, and snow climbing. Photo by Ed Luke In April and May of 2024, Ed Luke and Sasha Doyle (both U.K.) completed a 27-day self-supported journey across central Spitsbergen, in...
Chris Wright leading on Breiflogtinden’s east face, with Kråkhammartinden (at left) and Marklitinden (at right) behind. Photo by Stian Bruvoll Through a decade of Lofoten winters, I’ve come to appreciate the pattern: Climb something, gape awe...
The magnificent north and northeast faces of Breitinden. (1) East Ridge (1970). (2) Knuuttila-Skoglund (2025). (3) Finnjävel (2022). (4) Surf and Turf (2017). (5) Grasshopper Gully (2014). (6) The Ice Princess (2015). (7) Fantasia (2007). (8) Cr...
Overhanging terrain at the base of the headwall on the Popova-Prokofiev route. Photo by Marina Popova My husband, Denis Prokofiev, and I traveled to the Karavshin in July. We had planned several long routes in the region, and the line on the ...
The north face of Svarog in profile, showing the 2025 route. In August 2025, the Russian team of Egor Matveenko (leader), Evgeny Korulin, Artem Pivovarchik, and Tikhon von Stackelberg climbed a new route up the north face of Svarog (5,005m), ...
The red line shows Phillar of Experience on the southeast arête of Peak 4,300m. The blue line is the descent route. In August, Piotr Kowalczyk, Paweł Zieliński, and I (all from Poland) established a new line on Peak 4,300m, the sharp summit ...
Returning along the line of peaks in the Nura basin traversed in 2025; all four peaks were in the 4,600-meter range. Photo by Joe Collinson In July, Maria Koo, Lawrence Luscombe, and I from the U.K., with Orla O’Muiri from Ireland, spent four...
The Ashat Wall, with (A) Dioskury, (B) Argo, (C) Svarog, and (D) Sabakh. The two routes on the left on Dioskury both were climbed in 1990. The central route (1,200m, Russian 6B) was completed in 2025. Photo by Roman Shesternin Dioskury (4,884...