Erik Heldmann and climbing partner David Deichmann attempt Europe's longest ridgeline, the Peuterey Integral, on the Mont ...

The summer season ends soon, but there are still some good days ahead to climb Mont Blanc. If conditions are right, it is a relatively straightforward climb. At the same time, its 4,809m are not to be ...

Today, we tell just a few of the great stories from the climbing history of 3,773m Aiguille Noire de Peuterey, on the Italian ...

A very demanding route which requires a good level of familiarity with drytooling and placing gear. It has the potential of becoming a classic route in its genre. Compared to the world famous Digital ...

One of the most important figures in the history of British mountaineering, Geoffrey Winthrop Young shaped the sport ...

Last summer the Italian mountain guides Niccolò Bruni and Gianluca Marra established 'Diretta al Borelli' on the south face of Mont Noir de Peuterey in Val Veny, in the Mont Blanc massif. Whenever we ...

Eleven-year-old Papik (nickname for Yannick Vallençant) dreams of climbing Mont Blanc with his father, Patrick Vallençant. After serious training, the adventure begins: they set off from the summit of ...

Special Cable to THE NEW YORK TIMES. TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print ...

Kilian Jornet, one of the world’s most accomplished mountaineers, did something this month that left even other elite athletes gasping: He climbed all 72 summits in the contiguous United States that ...