No one was surprised that Swiss speed climber Ueli Steck was awarded his second Piolet d’Or for a new route he climbed by himself on the South Face of 8,000-meter Annapurna. In an amazing 29 ...

Or do mountaineers simply face life-or-death situations as they pursue the unclimbed or punishing routes that Piolet d’Or judges tend to honor? “I was always against the idea that traditional ...

Flying under the radar as usual while climbing in lonely Himalayan valleys, Piolet d’Or winner Yuri Koshelenko of Russia has bagged another first ascent. The unnamed peak lies in Rangtik Topko ...

The Piolet d’Or, or Golden Ice Axe, is alpine climbing’s biggest award. But whether it honors or encourages risk is debated in the sport. By Michael Levy High on Lunag Ri in Nepal, the ...

Helias Millerioux was awarded a Piolet d'Or in 2018 for his new route on the South Face of Nuptse with Frederic Degoulet and Niçois Benjamin Guigonnet. This was Millerioux's third attempt on the ...

but now, post-invasion, they use the Ukrainian spelling of their names. The post Ukrainian Piolet D’Or Pair To Attempt New Route on Makalu appeared first on Explorersweb.

The event is known as the "Oscars of Mountaineering". The Piolets d'Or have progressed from being a competition-single-award event (Le Piolet d'Or) into a broader celebration of mountaineering and ...

Tenor saxophonist Alex Weitz's third album, Rule of Thirds, is a quartet date with guests--on seven of its nine tracks. In addition to playing tenor, Weitz wrote all but one of those numbers, Cole ...

Two golden ice axes were awarded last weekend while last year - the first of the new "series" - there had been three. The 18th Piolet d'Or went to the Kazak mountaineers Denis Urubko and Boris ...

Two Piolets d'Or were awarded on 15 April in Chamonix, France, during the IXX Piolet d'Or 2011: to the Greenland Big Walls by Sean Villanueva, Nicolas and Olivier Favresse, Ben Ditto and Bob Shepton ...