What's the best 4,000m peak in the Alps for beginners? We asked five British Mountain ... Progressing to alpine routes can be intimidating and rightly so – as well as rock climbing and gear placements ...

The layering of the rocks reveals that this is low-grip limestone in the middle of Chamonix's granite climbing paradise. With bare hands and feet, even experienced climbers have a hard time ...

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In June, a professional skier and his girlfriend fell more than 2,000 feet to their deaths while mountain climbing in the ...

Ondrej Huserka, a member of the Slovak national mountaineering team who had climbed in the Alps, Patagonia, Pamir Mountains ...

The Alps are Europe’s biggest mountain range and ... The ibex, a type of mountain goat, climb up them to find food! There are many rare animals and plants here that are adapted to living at ...

“Ice climbing requires different conditions from ... On wolf-tracking holidays – run from a secret location in the French Alps – when you howl, the wolves howl back. If you don’t like ...

Nicolas Favresse, Sébastien Berthe, Damien Largeron and their dogs at the start of the month-long climbing trip across the Alps Planetmountain.com is a site about climbing, mountaineering, trekking, ...

Meltwater from the Alps feeds dozens of major rivers and watersheds ... from towering cliffs perfect for rock climbing to more than 8,000 mysterious caves, including show caves Postojna and ...

The Eiger, situated in the Bernese Oberland in central Switzerland, is one of the most famous mountains in the Swiss Alps. The north ... summit along this route. Climbing the Eiger is not for ...

Featuring nine stages for a total of 1,165 kilometers (724 miles), the fourth edition of the race will go through the Massif Central and finishes in the Alps as the peloton will climb blockbuster ...