A RECOVERY team has restarted its attempt to bring down the body of doctor and mountaineer Dr Asma Mushtaq from Spantik, after severe weather forced rescuers to retreat from the mountain. Dr Mushtaq, 34, died during her descent from the 7,027-metre Spantik – also known as ‘Golden Peak’ – inContinue Reading
THERE are few things more dispiriting than walking several miles uphill in the hope of finding a little peace and solitude, only to discover that everybody else has had precisely the same idea. This past week, pictures have emerged from Snowdon showing long lines of walkers making their way towardsContinue Reading
The recent discovery of two Belgian climbers who disappeared in 1992 has solved a 34-year-old mystery. But their remains are part of a much bigger story unfolding across the Alps. … A HIKER walking on Switzerland’s Trift Glacier on July 26 came across two bodies emerging from the ice. TheContinue Reading
All three principal routes to Europe’s highest mountain have become impassable this summer. Now a veteran Chamonix guide says the heat stored in the rock could keep conditions deteriorating, and fears another 25 classic routes may also be lost. … MONT Blanc has been effectively closed to most climbers. ItContinue Reading
IN 1976, a small rope manufacturer in France changed climbing forever. Beal’s first dynamic rope didn’t just add colour to a muted world of mountaineering gear, it reshaped what climbers believed was possible. Fifty years later, the company is marking that milestone – not with nostalgia, but with an extraordinaryContinue Reading
THE bodies of five climbers who vanished in a high‑altitude avalanche last November have been discovered in eastern Nepal after seasonal snowmelt exposed human remains near Yalung Ri base camp. Police say recovery efforts are underway but have already been hampered by worsening weather. Residents in the Rolwaling Valley firstContinue Reading
THERE is a particular kind of haste that grips the modern media whenever a high‑profile figure leaves us in dramatic circumstances. It is not grief, nor respect, nor even curiosity. It is the rush to explain, to dissect, to assign blame or brilliance before the facts have even had timeContinue Reading
OFFICIALS in Pakistan have confirmed the deaths of ten climbers following a major avalanche on Broad Peak (8,051m) on Thursday. An 11‑member international team was moving between Camp II and Camp III when a large slab released above them, sweeping the entire group down steep terrain in the Karakoram range.Continue Reading
NIRMAL ‘Nims’ Purja, the mountaineer whose speed, strength and ambition redefined what was possible in the high Himalaya, has died following an avalanche on Broad Peak in Pakistan. He was 43. His death marks the end to one of the most extraordinary careers in modern climbing – a life markedContinue Reading
AUTHORITIES in Pakistan have confirmed that more bodies have now been located following a devastating avalanche on Broad Peak in the country’s Karakoram range. Rescue teams are also reporting there are no survivors. The avalanche struck an 11‑member multinational expedition on Thursday, sweeping climbers down the mountain at high altitude.Continue Reading
