The news is just in: at 14.00 (local time) Simone Moro and Denis Urubko reached the 8462m high summit of Makalu, carrying out the historic first winter ascent of the 5th highest mountain in the world.

Vincent Anderson and Marko Prezelj have carried out the first ascent of the unclimbed West Face of Makalu II (7678 m). On Friday 17 October Vincent Anderson from America and Marko Prezelj from ...

Makalu Climbing Team Retreats Shy of Summit With the retreat of the climbing team attempting a winter ascent on Makalu, the ...

As Nepal celebrated the third anniversary of the first winter ascent of K2, Manaslu and Annapurna climbers are going home.

Given that no-one else summited Makalu that season, this was a magnificent effort ... In the spring of 1982 Alex MacIntyre made the historic first ascent of the south face of Xixabangma in ...

“[According to The Himalayan Database] Ziemski’s ski descent from Makalu on May 12-13 is the first…from the very summit ...

The successful ascent of Everest without supplementary ... to reach the summit of Makalu (8481 m) without supplementary oxygen. A bicycle ergometer (which measures the amount of work done by ...

Two avalanches cascaded down Annapurna hitting an Italian mountaineer and five Sherpas, which ended their winter expedition.

Climbing Season Climbing season in the Himalayas predominately takes place just twice per year when the Jetstream subsides above the Himala ...

made the first winter ascent of Nanga Parbat with Simone Moro of Italy in 2016. Txikon also summited Manaslu in January, 2023. Beyond the retreat on Makalu, the attempts on the following three ...