![This aerial shot shows the magnitude of the Eiger North Face (3970m). Metanoia (VII 5.10 M6 A4, 1800m) takes a central line up the shadowy face. [Photo] Archive Metanoia](https://i0.wp.com/alpinist.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/metanoia-1.jpg?resize=930%2C620&ssl=1)
Thomas Huber, Roger Schaeli and Stephan Siegrist complete the second ascent of Metanoia (VII 5.10 M6 A4, 1800m) on the Eiger North Face (3970m), more than 25 years after Jeff Lowe established the legendary route that became a turning point in his life.
![Marcin Tomaszewksi leads a pitch during the first ascent of Titanic (M5 5.10c A3 WI4, 1800m) on the North Face of the Eiger (3970m), which he completed with Tom Ballard on November 30 to December 6. [Photo] Tom Ballard](https://i0.wp.com/alpinist.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/eiger-titanic-1.jpg?resize=930%2C620&ssl=1)
Tom Ballard and Marcin Tomaszewksi have only climbed together three times, but all those climbs have been first ascents. They added another hard new route to the Eiger North Face in December –Titanic–and Ballard continued his legacy with the mountain that his mother, Alison Hargreaves, had climbed while she was pregnant with him.
![Shelika (6045m), south face, northeast of Jindong. [Photo] Tom Nakamura](https://i0.wp.com/alpinist.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/hidden-mountains-of-tibet-1.jpg?resize=930%2C620&ssl=1)
Eighty-two-year-old Japanese mountaineer Tamotsu “Tom” Nakamura has been exploring and documenting the seldom-visited regions of Tibet for the last 25 years. In this feature he shares photographs of southern Tibet’s “hidden” mountains.
![The red line marks the route and camps of Moveable Feast (ED2 M7 WI5 5c A3, 1400m) on Thalay Sagar (6904m), India. [Photo] Courtesy of Dmitry Golovchenko and Mountain.RU.](https://i0.wp.com/alpinist.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/thalay-sagar-moveable-feast-1-1.jpg?resize=930%2C620&ssl=1)
The golden trio of Dmitry Golovchenko, Dmitry Grigoriev and Sergey Nilov score another Russian Golden Axe for their alpine-style first ascent of Moveable Feast (ED2 M7 WI5 5c A3, 1400m) on Thalay Sagar (6904m) last September.
![Jacopo Larcher climbs The Nipple pitch (5.13d) on Zodiac (VI 5.13d) at sunset. [Photo] Francois Lebeau and Black Diamond Equipment](https://i0.wp.com/alpinist.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/zodiac-free-1.jpg?resize=930%2C620&ssl=1)
Barbara Zangerl and Jacopo Larcher recently made the third free ascent of Zodiac (VI 5.13d) on El Capitan after a 13-year period in which no one succeeded since the first and second free ascents were made in 2003.
![Jim Detterline in his element on the upper section of Kiener's Route on the East Face of Longs Peak (14,259'), July 2010. [Photo] Lisa Foster](https://i0.wp.com/alpinist.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/detterline-1.jpg?resize=800%2C600&ssl=1)
Jim Detterline participated in more than 1,200 rescues in his long career as a climbing ranger in Rocky Mountain National Park. He was well loved and famous for climbing Longs Peak (14,259’) a record 428 times. He died in a rope-soloing accident near his home in late October. More than 1,000 people attended the memorial service.
![Adam Ondra celebrates on Wino Tower after finishing the most difficult pitches of the El Capitan's Dawn Wall (VI 5.14d). [Photo] Heinz Zak and Black Diamond Equipment](https://i0.wp.com/alpinist.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/ondra-dawn-wall-1.jpg?resize=930%2C620&ssl=1)
Adam Ondra sets a new precedent on the second free ascent of El Capitan’s Dawn Wall (VI 5.14d) by blazing up the route in fewer than eight days and leading every pitch.
![Pete Whittaker sends the Boulder Problem variation (5.13a) on El Capitan's Freerider (VI 5.12d or 5.13a). [Photo] Dustin Moore](https://i0.wp.com/alpinist.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/whittaker-freerider-rope-solo-1-scaled.jpg?resize=930%2C620&ssl=1)
Pete Whittaker rope solos El Capitan’s Freerider (VI 5.12d) all free in 20 hours, 6 minutes, becoming the first person to do it in a day.
![Junko Tabei climbs Somoni Peak (7495m), formerly known as Communism Peak, in 1985. [Photo] Jaan Kunnap](https://i0.wp.com/alpinist.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/junko-tabei-obit-1.jpg?resize=930%2C620&ssl=1)
Junko Tabei was more than the first woman to summit the highest peak on Earth, she was a trailblazer for women in the mountains, a leader for the environment and a person who actively invested in her community all the way up until her death from cancer on October 20.
![Josie McKee leading the last block to the top of Lost Arrow Spire on Day 2. [Photo] Quinn Brett](https://i0.wp.com/alpinist.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/tour-de-ditch-1.jpg?resize=930%2C620&ssl=1)