News flash: Italian mountaineers Matteo Della Bordella, François Cazzanelli and Francesco Ratti made a single day repeat on the north face of the Matterhorn of the Bonatti route, the legendary line ...

The first section of the new 500-600m route climbs a direct line between the 1935 route first ascended by Franz and Toni Schmidt, and Bonatti's great winter 1965 solo climb. After the first 400m up ...

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 ...

Outside magazine, June 1994 Mountaineering: Queen of Solo By Todd Balf (with Martin Dugard and Eric Hagerman) French sport-climber-turned-mountaineer ...

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.

>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 ...

Walter Bonatti could have made the first ascent of K2. He was the most talented member of the Italian expedition that climbed the world's second highest mountain in 1954, but at 24 he was also the ...

Ueli Steck, 38, is perhaps today’s most acclaimed alpinist. Known as “the Swiss Machine,” Steck's solo speed-climbing feats in the Alps are the stuff of legend – under three hours for the ...

By David Roberts; Map of 1954 Italian route up K2 by Computer Terrain Mapping In December 2003, for a feature article, "The Bitter Legacy," for Adventure hailing the 50th anniversary of the first ...

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 ...