Italian mountain guide Paolo Tassi invites everyone to take part on Sunday 23 September 2018 in the Delicious Climbing Dolomiti event at the world-famous Cinque Torri (Cortina): an unmissable ...

The Zenith is a mountaineering axe that uniquely combines lightweight design with technical features for top-level performance. Petzl Petzl Irvis Hybrid - crampons for ski touring and approaches ...

CONSIDER THIS THE last time you’ve never heard of Cortina D’Ampezzo. You might’ve already heard about this town at the foot of Italy’s Dolomite Mountains from early promos for the Winter Olympics, ...

During the world wars, Europeans built metal and wooden protection into the cliffs of the Dolomites and other mountains for quick passage by soldiers and civilians. Hundreds of routes were established ...

Ermanno Salvaterra, the famed "Man of Cerro Torre," died in a fall on August 18 while guiding the Hartman-Krauss (IV+/5.5; 600m) on Campanile Alto, in the Dolomites. Salvaterra had climbed the classic ...

Climbing season continues in the Alps, attracting climbers from around the world to take on these challenging peaks. The Eiger, Mont Blanc, the Matterhorn, and Gran Paradiso present historic climbing ...

“I always imagined I would see it for myself…” My father-in-law’s voice tailed off and his cancer-gnarled fingers tightened their grip on mine as tears engulfed us both. Spring sunshine streamed into ...

particularly unnerving, in large part because of what climbing media focused on before and after these fatalities. The first of these was the death of 25 year-old Jonas Hainz, of South Tyrol (in ...

July 27 (UPI) --A British woman slipped and fell 100 feet to her death while hiking in the Dolomites, in northern Italy. Louise Atkinson, 55, of Ripon, North Yorkshire, was hiking with her husband ...