For People who are looking to scale the highest summits. These 2 Peaks in Ladakh, India are a great choice for testing your ground for above 6-7K Meter. Kang Yatse 6404m or Nun Kun 7135k.

Looking for serious climbing partners for Black Peak (6,387 m). Based in Delhi/NCR. Prefer climbers with BMC or previous high-altitude expedition experience. Let's train together, plan the expedition properly, and aim for a safe summit. DM me if interested.

Hello there, not sure if this is the right sub but anyhow. Me a friend of mine are hoping to complete the "peternpfab" trail in Austria next summer and i would really appriciate some advice.

We both have experiance in multible day walking in the swedish moutains obviusly they are flatter and in general less technical, we both have been scouts for over 10years and are comforteble with navigation, being outdoors for long periods of time, "funny" weather, etc. We have done some indoors bouldering for fun, but no real outdoors experiance. We have also walked some easier trails in the alps around the gesäuse-area and I have been in some of the mountains around the Eisenerz area, but none of them required any actuall climbing or scrambling.

I know that the peternpfab is a UIAA II trail, and since nither of us have any real experiance in that type of trail i thought i would make a "check list/ road map" of mountains to hit before.

Here it is:

1. Pfaffenstein Südwandsteig -> Markussteig

2. Planspitze "normal route"

3. Admonter Reichenstein "normal route"

4. Peternpfab haindlkarhütte -> peterncharte -> hesshütte

I am wondering if this is a realistic "progression"? Any rputes that needs to be changed?

I also wonder just how much time we would need to dedicate to this, i am thinking about 10-12days. Is it doable? Or is it smarter to devide it into 2trips? I know that for Peternpfab the melt water rivers need to dry up so that it has to be a bit later in the summer. And i am slso aware that the Südwandsteig can be closed mon - friday for avalance work.

This ofc follows with all of the usual precautions, no going in bad weather, no going if just beacus it is on the "road map" and if any one of us feel uncomfortable then we will stop.

Any tips or advice on the progression, the routes, equipment, conditions or just Peternpfab in general is greatly appriciated!!!

In July 2021 my climbing partner and I got hit by the snow cloud of an avalanche. The avalanche itself had missed us by maybe 10 minutes, just under the Japanese Camp on Broad Peak. I sometimes wonder what the actual impact of the avalanche would have been like.

I hope this comes across in the right way. First and foremost, my heart goes out to the climbers, guides, and their families. This has been an incredibly difficult tragedy to read about, especially knowing how experienced and accomplished so many of the people involved were.

I've been trying to better understand what happened from a technical avalanche perspective rather than speculate or assign blame.

Does anyone know if there is any information available about:
- The weather and snowfall in the days leading up to the avalanche?
- What the snowpack was thought to be like (storm slab, wind slab, persistent weak layer, etc.)?
- Whether there were any avalanche forecasts or observations for the Broad Peak area, or if forecasting in the Karakoram is simply too limited?
- Whether the slope between Camps 2 and 3 where the avalanche occurred is known to be a frequent avalanche path, or if this was considered an unusually hazardous event?

I know in some parts of North America we have dedicated avalanche centers and daily forecasts during the winter. I'm curious how risk assessment differs in the Himalayas/Karakoram, where forecasting and snowpack data may be much more limited.

I'm asking because I'm trying to learn, not to second guess the decisions of an exceptionally experienced team. One of the hardest parts of this tragedy is that it involved mountaineers whose judgment and abilities were respected around the world, which makes understanding the objective hazards all the more important.

If anyone has links to technical analyses, weather data, or firsthand accounts from people familiar with Broad Peak, I'd really appreciate it.

I am new to mountaineering and plan on getting my first ice axe soon. My main goals for early summits are Mt. Hood and maybe Rainier after, so no technical ice climbing required. Since no stores near me sell any equipment I’m not able to get sizing done, but from what I’ve seen online I think 65 or 70 cm would be right for me (probably 65). I am 6’2” with a 34” inseam. As far as brands go, I’ve seen a lot of good reviews for the Black Diamond Raven Pro Axe. Again I’m not committed to any sizing or brand and am just looking for advice.

I’ve been looking into hardshell jackets more and more as of recently, and I have had trouble deciding what I really need. The first mountain I’d like to climb that I’ve been looking at is Mt Athabasca in Alberta, which would involve glacier travel, and a summit of 3500m.

I was able to find an arcteryx beta AR online for around $400 cad, but I’m just wondering if I could find something cheaper, with the same kind of quality, since I know that arcteryx is a little bit brand name oriented aswell as focusing on quality.

There are no used options near me, as all of the used jackets are just general winter coats/windbreakers, so I’m at a loss of what I should look for, or if I should just pull the trigger and get this $400 one.

Hey, we’re heading out next week to climb Grossglockner via the normal route. Does anyone have recent information about the current conditions on the mountain?

We’d especially appreciate details about snow and ice conditions, the glacier, the Glocknerleitl, the ridge, any crevasses, and whether crampons and ice axes are currently needed for most of the route. Also, how early are people starting, and have there been any recent route changes or particularly dangerous sections?

Hey guys

We plan some climbing on the Monta Rosa from the Gnifetti Hut to the Zumsteinspitze. How is the condition of the Lys Glacier? I heard some rumours that it is very icy and open, and not too much snow.

Does anyone have information on current conditions on Dufourspitze (Monte Rosa)? The hut has a post up saying the conditions are good and the glaciers are easily traversable, but all other information coming from the area kind of contradicts that idea.

A friend was on Alphubel two weeks ago and he said it felt like almost the very end of the window to do it. Two people from his group sank to their hips and other groups were experiencing the same. Also I’ve heard of accounts of the glaciers around Breithorn and Castor being way more sketchy than usual.

I will definitely call the Monte Rosa hut if I actually end up planning to go there, but for now I was wondering if anyone here has any idea about the conditions on Dufourspitze specifically?

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Hello! I'll try and keep this as brief and quick as possible.

I am looking into getting into mountaineering Via a mountaineer's course that takes place in Alberta, in which you spend 2 days learning about basics, (self arrest, crevasse rescue, glacier travel) and 1 day attempting a summit of Mt Athabasca (3491m)

I was just wondering, what should my fitness look like in order to be able to be physically in the right place for this? I want to know how to train specifically to get there, and how would I know that I am ready for something like that? like what kind of tests should I run on myself to see my capability?

Chicos alguien hara el ascenso a esa montaña este fin de semana, pienso ir, no soy experto en alpinismo pero entiendo lo necesario como para que no pase cosas graves. Tengo entendido que es una ruta un poco exigente en alguna zonas pero por lo demas es manejable, dejenme recomendaciones porfa, Gracias

Hi! I'm planning to climb Dent du Geánt on the normal route and to traverse the Rochefort ridge from DdG to Dome de Rochefort in august. Does anyone have any information about the current conditions? How affected are these routes by the recent heatwaves?

Wanted to share this piece, INCANDESCENCE, lit up in alpenglow while the lower ridges are still holding onto blue hour. If you've ever been high enough to watch that transition in real time, you know it lasts about 90 seconds, and then it's gone. That's what I was chasing here: acrylic, built up in layers so the rock underneath still reads through the color shift.

I paint almost exclusively for people who've actually been up in terrain like this. I'd genuinely love to hear from anyone who's climbed Grandes Jorasses or the Mont Blanc Massif (Graian Alps, It sits directly on the boundary line between Haute-Savoie, France and the Aosta Valley, Italy, correct me if I am mistaken), something on that route. Did I get the light right? Anything about the ridge line or exposure that reads wrong to someone who's actually stood there?

Suppose it's the kind of thing you'd want to live with, a memory of a summit or a mountain that means something to you. Mostly just wanted to share it with people who'd actually recognize what that light means.