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Mountaineering

December 2024

  • Kirkstone Pass with Ill Bell, Froswick and Thornthwaite Crag in the background from Snarker Pike, Lake District.

    Country diary
    Country diary 1974: A simple fell walk becomes a minor Arctic adventure

  • Michelle Dvorak on Chaukhamba

    ‘If we don’t get off this mountain I don’t think I can do another night’: climber Fay Manners on surviving the odds

  • Claire Cunningham: Songs of a Wayfarer, Sadlers Wells, 2024

    Songs of the Wayfarer review – a likeable hike through life and theatre

  • In this photo supplied by the New Zealand police, shows the search base at Aoraki/Mount Cook in the South Island of New Zealand, Friday, Dec. 6, 2024. (NZ Police via AP)

    Three climbers missing on New Zealand’s highest peak believed to have died, police say

November 2024

  • Paul Sagar climbing in the Swiss alps in 2019.

    ‘It has been a year since I felt joy’: Paul Sagar on coming to terms with the climbing accident that paralysed him

    A 20-metre fall while mountaineering left the academic and philosopher with life-changing injuries. In this extract from his diary, his clear-eyed willingness to confront his situation leads to some breathtakingly honest reflections

October 2024

  • Nima Rinji Sherpa arriving in Kathmandu after becoming the youngest person to summit all 14 of the world's highest peaks.

    ‘Sherpas are rarely seen as elite athletes’: record-breaking teenager’s fight for equality

    Nima Rinji Sherpa is youngest person to summit world’s 14 highest peaks at 18 years old. Now he is pushing for recognition of his community
  • Adrian Brownlee holding a union flag at the summit of Shishapangma

    Briton becomes youngest woman to climb world’s 14 highest peaks

    Adriana Brownlee, 23, reaches summit of Shishapangma three years after setting target at top of Everest

    • More clues in 100-year-old Mount Everest mystery as climber’s foot found

    • Mountaineers who were stranded in Himalayas describe loss of their gear

    • Climbers rescued after being stranded in Himalayas for three days

September 2024

  • As one of Bolivia’s first female Indigenous mountain guides, Cecilia Llusco has scaled its highest peaks and changed the tourism landscape – and has her sights set on Everest.

    The Indigenous female mountain guide breaking barriers in Bolivia – video

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  • A shot looking upwards at a woman climbing a sheer wall of ice. She smiles at the camera and holds up an ice pick, while the wind blows her skirt, which has red and pink flowers on it and frilly bright pink petticoats underneath.

    ‘I’ve never worn trousers up a mountain and I never will’: a Bolivian cholita climber on sexism and her next summit

August 2024

  • A small group of people wearing backpacks and safety helmets stand on a rocky path next to vehicles

    Colorado man left behind during office retreat survives night on mountain

  • Ed Jackson wearing a backwards baseball cap in the mountains, looking up

    The Mountain Within Me review – feelgood climbing doc is hard to resist

  • The Mountain Within Me.

    The Mountain Within Me review – disabled heroes take on the Himalayas

  • Adam Ondra: Pushing the Limits

    Adam Ondra: Pushing the Limits review – Czech Spider-Man climbs all the way to Olympics

  • The number of hikers visiting US national parks is increasing. So is the challenge of keeping them safe

  • Christopher Ralling obituary

  • Family of British doctor missing in French Pyrenees appeal for help

July 2024

  • Mountain Queen The Summits of Lhakpa Sherpa.

    Mountain Queen: The Summits of Lhakpa Sherpa review – a female Everest climber’s ascent

    Documentary expertly follows the only woman to have climbed the mountain 10 times through spectacular scenery and a traumatic personal life
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