![Nanga Parbat's Diamir Face with the Mazeno Ridge extending toward the foreground. [Photo] Guilhem Vellut, Wikimedia](https://alpinist.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/mazeno-ridge-1-1-930x620.jpg)
Mariano Galvan and Alberto Zerain are presumed to have died in an avalanche at around 6000 meters on Nanga Parbat (8125m). The two climbers had… Read More »Climbers missing and presumed dead on Nanga Parbat’s Mazeno Ridge
![Katie Bono trains at 13,500 feet on Denali, June 1, to prepare for her speed ascent on June 13-14 in which she set a probable female round-trip record of 21 hours, 6 minutes. That time is the third or fourth fastest time overall. [Photo] Savannah Cummins](https://alpinist.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/katie-bono-denali-1-1-930x620.jpg)
On June 13-14, Katie Bono completed a round-trip ascent of Denali’s West Buttress in 21 hours, 6 minutes. This is likely a female speed record,… Read More »Katie Bono sets probable women’s speed record on Denali at 21 hours, 6 minutes
![Kilian Jornet points to Mt. Everest's shrouded summit while acclimatizing for his first speed ascent of the North Col route. [Photo] Sebastien Montaz-Rosset/Kilian Jornet collection](https://alpinist.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/kilian-jornet-everest-speed-ascents-1-930x620.jpg)
Spanish climber and ultra-runner Kilian Jornet completed two rapid Everest ascents without using fixed ropes or bottled oxygen on the North Col route in one… Read More »Kilian Jornet completes two fast and light ascents of Everest in one week
![The Black Diamond Access Hoody keeps Derek Franz comfortable between climbs at Main Elk, Colorado, in early March. [Photo] Mandi Franz](https://alpinist.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/black-diamond-access-hoody-1-1-930x620.jpg)
The Black Diamond Access Hoody has kept Alpinist Digital Editor Derek Franz comfy in a variety of temperatures and conditions since January. He’s happy with… Read More »Black Diamond Access Hoody: Simple, warm and compact
![Ryan Franz down climbs from the summit of Bridger Jack Butte to access a rappel station in April 2015. The King of Pain pinnacle is in the background. The area is part of the Bears Ears National Monument designated by outgoing President Barack Obama on December 28, 2016. [Photo] Derek Franz](https://alpinist.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/zinke-interim-report-on-bears-ears-930x620.jpg)
Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke’s interim report on Bears Ears National Monument recommends “revising” or reducing the monument’s boundaries while keeping some areas protected. On April… Read More »Zinke’s interim report recommends reducing Bears Ears National Monument
Tommy Caldwell’s autobiography, The Push, is as daring as his multitude of world-class climbing accomplishments, which range from 5.14 and 5.15 sport routes around the… Read More »Tommy Caldwell is honest and vulnerable in his autobiography ‘The Push’
![In this photo that was taken through a telescope from the ground, Alex Honnold carefully makes his way across the highly technical, friction-dependent moves low on the Freerider route (VI 5.13a, 3,000') during his historic ropeless ascent of El Capitan, June 3. [Photo] Tom Evans](https://alpinist.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/honnold-freerider-solo-1-930x620.jpg)
Alex Honnold became the first person to free solo El Capitan via the Freerider route (VI 5.13a, 3,000′) on June 3, which is indisputably a… Read More »The world gasps in the aftermath of Alex Honnold’s free solo of El Capitan’s Freerider (5.13a, 3,000′)
![With Yosemite Falls rumbling to his left, Jon Cardwell face climbs into the final 5.12 splitter crack on Pitch 13 of the Misty Wall (5.13, 1,700') during a free ascent with Sasha DiGiulian on May 27. Cardwell had previously freed the individual pitches with Marcus Garcia last autumn, but the recent ascent is the first time the route has been free climbed in a continuous push, which took about 14.5 hours. [Photo] Marcus Garcia](https://alpinist.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/yosemite-legacy-project-1-930x620.jpg)
The Legacy Restoration Project is an emerging program to clean up forgotten routes as a way to remind climbers of the potential that still lies… Read More »Legacy Restoration Project begets another high-end route: Yosemite’s Misty Wall (5.13)
![The Salt Palace Convention Center in Salt Lake City, Utah, will host the Outdoor Retailer at least one more time this July. [Photo] hakkun, Wikimedia](https://alpinist.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/patagonia-or-1-930x620.jpg)
Emerald Expositions–the company that owns Outdoor Retailer–announced May 24 that it has acquired the SnowSports Industries America (SIA) Snow Show and that the winter OR… Read More »Outdoor Retailer winter trade show is merging with SIA Snow Show in Denver
![The east face of the Ship's Prow with MantraMandala (VI A3+, 450m) marked in red. [Photo] Marek Raganowicz](https://alpinist.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/marek-ships-prow-1-930x620.jpg)
Though he intended to do some solo climbing, Marek Raganowicz hadn’t planned on spending the entire six weeks alone among the polar bears on Baffin… Read More »Marek Raganowicz solos two new routes on the Ship’s Prow in Baffin Island
![Max Barlerin and Quinn Brett celebrate on top of the Leaning Wall in Zion after Brett's free ascent of Spaceshot (IV 5.13a) on May 2. [Photo] Max Barlerin](https://alpinist.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/brett-space-shot-1-930x620.jpg)
Quinn Brett made what is likely the first female free ascent of Spaceshot (IV 5.13a, 9 pitches) in Zion National Park, Utah, on May 1-2,… Read More »Quinn Brett makes probable first female free ascent of Spaceshot (5.13a) in Zion
![The delegation of Colorado climbers walks through the rain from the House to the Senate while lobbying Congress in Washington, DC, on May 11 as part of the Climb the Hill event organized by the Access Fund and American Alpine Club. [Photo] Derek Franz](https://alpinist.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/climb-the-hill-1-930x620.jpg)
Approximately 50 climbers lobbied Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, as part of the Access Fund and American Alpine Club’s Climb the Hill event on May… Read More »Climber delegation lobbies Congress on behalf of public lands
