Federico Secchi, Leonardo Gheza, and Gabriele Carrara aim to repeat the iconic Northeast Ridge route first climbed by Walter Bonatti and Carlo Mauri in 1958 during the first ascent of Gasherbrum IV.

Our mountaineering expert considers the world’s greatest mountaineers throughout history, as well as casting an eye on those ...

As mountains go, Switzerland's 14,701 -ft. Matterhorn is not much of a challenge any more. Robert McNamara climbed it, after all, and it is the sort of hill that Stewart Udall would probably try ...

>Italy's Walter Bonatti, 34: the first successful direttissima—straight up—ascent of the 14,701-ft. Matterhorn's north wall; in Switzerland. Two days after 60 m.p.h. winds forced ...

The new route is located on the wild, exposed and rarely climbed South Face of The Matterhorn, sitting between Picco Muzio (4,187m) and the Pilastro dei Fiori (4,000m). Encompassing 300m of climbing ...

Walter Bonatti is THE mountaineering legend, capable of meeting the great challenges of mountaineering: K2, Dru, G4, Matterhorn, to name a few. But the summits reached are not points of arrival ...

Walter Bonatti, Mont Blanc, his mountaineering. The new episode of the Petzl Legend Tour Italy takes you on a journey through history and time. After a visit to the National Museum of the Mountain, ...