![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)
![Masha Gordon of the UK is the founder of The Grit & Rock First Ascent Expedition Award [Photo] Masha Gordon collection](https://i0.wp.com/alpinist.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/new-climbing-grant-for-female-first-ascents-1-1.jpg?resize=742%2C620&ssl=1)
