Such moments form the emotionally rich landscape of the new IMAX movie "The Alps," a gorgeous homage to alpine climbing, the Swiss Alps and all of dazzling Switzerland. "The Eiger Obsession," Harlin's ...

Mountaineers Thomas Huber, 58, and Stfan Siegrist, 52, have been working on a new route on the North Face of the iconic Eiger for over five years. Huber and Alpinist Jonas Schild, 32, recently gave it ...

On March 22, 1966, American climber John Harlin fell 1,000m to his death on the Eiger’s North Face. He was just 600m from completing his ambitious Direttissima route. Fifty-nine years later, we look ...

A mountaineering dispute continues to simmer after climber Stephan Siegrist questioned a new speed record set by Nicolas Hojac and Philipp Brugger. Brugger and Hojac had climbed the north faces of the ...

This April French alpinists Benjamin Védrines and Léo Billon climbed the three great north faces of the Alps in less than a week. Védrines enchained the Eiger, Matterhorn and Grandes Jorasses without ...

Light ice axe for ski touring and high altitude mountaineering. Planetmountain.com is a site about climbing, mountaineering, trekking, via ferrata, freeriding, ski mountaineering, snowboarding, ...

Chris Jones, who has died aged 84, was a British climber who in the 1960s and 1970s established bold new alpine climbs in Canada, the US and South America, and pushed the limits of “big wall” climbing ...