![Pete Takeda is pictured here on a 2005 expedition to Nanda Kot with the east face of Nanda Devi East / Sunanda Devi in the background, which is just in front of the main peak of Nanda Devi in the Indian Himalaya. Takeda authored a two-part Mountain Profile about the area in Alpinist issues 62 and 63 (Summer and Autumn 2018). [Photo] Pete Takeda collection](https://alpinist.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/nanda-devi-east-1-930x620.jpg)
Eight climbers are presumed to have been killed in a large avalanche on the flanks of Nanda Devi East / Sunanda Devi in the Indian… Read More »Five bodies found in avalanche debris on the flanks of Nanda Devi East / Sunanda Devi; three others presumed dead
The American Alpine Club is hosting its annual Excellence in Climbing Celebration on June 1 at its headquarters in Golden, Colorado. Tickets start at $20.… Read More »American Alpine Club hosting the Excellence in Climbing Celebration on June 1
![Getulio Felipe reaches the end of the via ferrata, which is buried in snow, on Punta Penia's Normal Route, Marmolada, Dolomites, Italy. He is belayed by guide Alessio Nardelotto with his friend Pedro McCardell offering support from behind. [Photo] Stefano Fabris](https://alpinist.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/getulio-felipe-marmolada-1-930x620.jpg)
Doctors predicted Getulio Felipe would never walk after a complication at birth left him with cerebral palsy. But the 14-year-old Brazilian learned to walk at… Read More »14-year-old with cerebral palsy summits the Marmolada in Italy’s Dolomites
![Arne wearing his crack gloves in Yosemite, 2008. [Photo] Derek Franz](https://alpinist.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/ocun-crack-gloves-1-3.jpg)
Alpinist Digital Editor Derek Franz used to make fun of people who used rubber gloves to protect their hands while crack climbing, but now he’s… Read More »Ocun Crack Gloves: Save your skin as well as time and tape
![The east face of Howse Peak, Icefields Parkway, Alberta, Canada. [Photo] Courtesy of Parks Canada](https://alpinist.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/howse-peak-folo-1-930x620.jpg)
Parks Canada reported in a press conference today that Jess Roskelley, David Lama and Hansjorg Auer started climbing M-16 (VI WI7+ A2) on Howse Peak… Read More »Auer, Lama, Roskelley summited Howse Peak before avalanche killed them on the descent
![David Lama during acclimatizing on Fox Peak, October 2018. [Photo] David Lama/Red Bull Content Pool](https://alpinist.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/howse-peak-deaths-1-930x620.jpg)
Hansjorg Auer, David Lama and Jess Roskelley are presumed to have been killed in an avalanche while attempting M-16 (VI WI7+ A2) on Howse Peak,… Read More »Auer, Lama and Roskelley killed in avalanche on Canada’s Howse Peak
![Kyle Dempster. [Photo] Andrew Burr](https://alpinist.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/kyle-dempster-packrafting-file-photo-930x620.jpeg)
Four recipients have been selected for the second annual Kyle Dempster Solo Adventure Award. Cassady Bindrup, Gabe Dirksen, Talley Kayser and Max Neale are each… Read More »Four recipients selected for 2019 Kyle Dempster Solo Adventure Award
![Anna Piunova. [Photo] Marko Prezelj](https://alpinist.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/a65-local-hero-1-930x620.jpg)
Alpinist Digital Editor Derek Franz profiles Anna Piunova, editor-in-chief of Mountain.ru. Piunova was instrumental in coordinating the helicopter rescue of Alex Gukov from 6200 meters… Read More »Local Hero: Anna Piunova
![Tom Ballard, left, and Daniele Nardi. [Photo] Ballard, Nardi collections](https://alpinist.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/ballard-nardi-2-930x620.jpg)
The bodies of Tom Ballard, 30, of Britain, and Daniele Nardi, 42, of Italy, were spotted through a telescope above Camp III on Nanga Parbat’s… Read More »Tom Ballard and Daniele Nardi’s bodies found on Nanga Parbat
![A climber rappels in Utah's San Rafael Swell, one of many areas across the country that will soon have wilderness designations if President Donald Trump signs the Natural Resources Management Act, which was passed by Congress on February 26. [Photo] John Easterling](https://alpinist.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/san-rafael-swell-pano-930x272.jpeg)
Yesterday the House of Representatives passed a historic bipartisan bill titled the Natural Resources Management Act, 363-62. It cleared the Senate, 92-8, on February 12,… Read More »Congress passes historically large public lands bill that sets a legal precedent for climbing in wilderness areas
![Derek Franz wears the Mountain Equipment Tupilak 30+ on Hidden Falls (WI4, 3 pitches) in Glenwood Canyon on New Years Eve, 2018. [Photo] Craig Helm](https://alpinist.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/xmountain-equipment-tupilak-30-1-2-930x620.jpeg.pagespeed.ic.7WrL3egn69.jpg)
Alpinist Digital Editor Derek Franz writes of the Mountain Equipment 30+ backpack, “This is the most hardcore rucksack I’ve ever used…. No frills. All utilitarian… Read More »Mountain Equipment Tupilak 30+: Simple, light and ‘hardcore’
![Ari Novak on Snow Leopard (HWI 7), Spiti Valley, India. [Photo] Austin Schmitz](https://alpinist.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/piti-dharr-ice-fest-1-930x620.jpg)
The first Piti-Dharr International Ice Climbing Festival took place in India’s Spiti Valley on January 5-15. During the event, Indian climber Bharat Bhushan and Americans… Read More »India’s first Piti-Dharr Ice Fest results in a flurry of first ascents
