![The red line shows the approximate route of Frozen Fight Club (M7 A3, 780m). [Image] Marcin Tomaszewski collection](https://alpinist.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/frozen-fight-club-1-930x620.jpg)
Polish climbers Marcin “Yeti” Tomaszewski and Damian “Dany” Bielecki completed a new big wall aid route in Pakistan’s Karakoram Range on a 700-meter cliff known… Read More »Polish duo endures severe cold on big wall for 11 days to complete Frozen Fight Club
![Bronwyn Hodgins nears the top of El Capitan (Tu-Tok-A-Nu-La) in May 2021, when she became the third woman to free climb Golden Gate (5.13a, 34 pitches). [Photo] Nick Smith](https://alpinist.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/a76-ob-yosemite-dreams-1-930x620.jpg)
In this On Belay story from Alpinist 76–which is now on newsstands and available in our online store–our digital editor Derek Franz travels to Yosemite… Read More »Yosemite Dreams
![Derek Franz on the rim of the Black Canyon in 2020 after finishing a route during which he wore his new Black Diamond Crack Gloves for the first time. [Photo] Morgan Williams](https://alpinist.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/xblack-diamond-crack-gloves-1-1-930x620.jpeg.pagespeed.ic.ppKBkie3o_.jpg)
Mountain Standards Gear Review: Alpinist Digital Editor Derek Franz has been using the Black Diamond Crack Gloves to jam cracks across the west for the… Read More »Black Diamond Crack Gloves have it covered from hand cracks to offwidth sizes
David Smart’s book, Emilio Comici: Angel of the Dolomites, received the Boardman-Tasker Award for Mountain Literature in November. The biography was published in 2020 and… Read More »Interview with David Smart, author of the Mountain Profile for Alpinist 76 and winner of 2021 Boardman-Tasker Award
![A screenshot of a publicist's Facebook post announcing the upcoming media briefing for Nikita Balabanov, Mikhail Fomin and Viacheslav Polezhaiko's first ascent of the Southeast Ridge of Annapurna III (7555m). [Photo] Derek Franz](https://alpinist.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/annapurna-iii-se-ridge-screenshot-496x620.jpg)
Three Ukrainian climbers–Nikita Balabanov, Mikhail Fomin and Viacheslav Polezhaiko–have just completed the first ascent of the fabled Southeast Ridge of Annapurna III (7555m). Until now,… Read More »Three Ukrainian climbers complete first ascent of fabled Southeast Ridge of Annapurna III
![[Image] Banff Mountain Book Competition](https://alpinist.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/banff-book-awards-2021-930x620.jpeg)
A story from Alpinist 74 (Summer 2021)–“Letters to a Young Climber,” by Doug Robinson–was recently selected as the winner of Best Mountaineering Article at the… Read More »Doug Robinson’s story from Alpinist 74 wins Banff Book Comp for Mountaineering Article
![This photo was taken on a trip to Venezuela that was supported by an American Alpine Club Live Your Dream Grant. [Photo] Blake McCord](https://alpinist.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/aac-climbing-grants-2021-930x620.jpg)
The American Alpine Club (AAC) is currently accepting applications for six grants: the TINCUP Partner in Adventure Grant, the Cutting Edge Grant, the Jones Backcountry… Read More »American Alpine Club now accepting applications for six grants
![A screenshot from the livestreamed event outside the White House on October 8 as President Joe Biden signed the proclamations restoring the protections to Bears Ears, Grand Staircase-Escalante and Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine national monuments as set by President Barack Obama. Biden handed out the pens he used to the people gathered behind him. [Photo] Derek Franz](https://alpinist.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/biden-signs-monument-proclamations-1-930x620.jpg)
President Joe Biden signed an executive order today restoring Utah’s Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments after former President Donald Trump rescinded the original… Read More »President Biden signs proclamations to restore Bears Ears, Grand Staircase-Escalante and Seamounts Marine national monuments
![Barbed wire and mountains in Afghanistan: Koh-e-Omah (5766m), left, and Koh-e-Hawar (6266m). [Photo] Matt Traver](https://alpinist.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/ascend-afghanistan-1-930x620.jpg)
The members, graduates and students of the Ascend program in Afghanistan need help. The nonprofit has offered leadership training for young Afghan women through mountaineering… Read More »Women, girls involved with Ascend program in Afghanistan are threatened by Taliban rule
![Nina Williams--who is sponsored by Gnarly Nutrition--climbs in the background of the author's BCAA supplement at Rifle Mountain Park, Colorado. [Photo] Derek Franz](https://alpinist.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/gnarly-nutrition-bcaa-supplement-1-1-930x620.jpg)
Mountain Standards Gear Review: Digital Editor Derek Franz has been using the Gnarly Nutrition Pre and BCAA (branched chain amino acid) dietary supplements for the… Read More »Gnarly Nutrition BCAAs: A dietary supplement geared especially for vegans, alpinists and older athletes
![The line of Cerveza, Pan y Acido (ED: 90 degrees, 700m) on the south face of Concha de Caracol (5640m) with the location of the open bivy marked near the top. [Photo] Courtesy of Anna Pfaff](https://alpinist.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/cerveza-pan-y-acido-1-631x620.jpeg)
On July 13 and 14, Andres Marin, Anna Pfaff and Alex Torres completed a new route on Concha de Caracol (5640m) in Peru’s Cordillera Vilcanota.… Read More »US-Colombian trio complete a new route on Peru’s Concha de Caracol (5640m)
![Baruntse (7129m): the red line shows Heavenly Trap (ABO+: VI+ M6+ 80°, 1300m) and the blue line shows the descent route. Dots indicate bivies. [Photo] Marek Holecek collection](https://alpinist.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/baruntse-heavenly-trap-1-930x571.jpg)
On May 21, two-time Piolet d’Or recipient Marek “Mara” Holecek and fellow Czech climber Radoslav “Radar” Groh set out to climb a new route on… Read More »Marek Holecek and Radoslav Groh endure an epic to complete a new route on Baruntse
