In this guide, we share tips to help you navigate your way back to safety in the event of a whiteout. Winter Mountaineering and Climbing Instructor Rob Johnson explains the essentials of choosing and ...

The thoughts of Simone Moro about high-altitude winter mountaineering on the world's Eight-thousanders and about the events which have taken place and are currently unfolding on Broad Peak. It's a ...

Winter hiking is not just summer hiking with a bit of snow. The trails become more challenging as snow and ice can make paths ...

As a qualified Summer Mountain Leader and someone who is working towards one day becoming a Winter Mountain Leader, I think ...

Here's how winter climbing grades work. Just when you thought you had grades mastered, here’s another system. Here's how winter climbing grades work. Winter routes are graded for difficulty and ...

However, in the last decade or more, the lack of a real winter and easier access to many other areas in the Alps had led to the big faces in Slovenia becoming deserted. Sometimes there were more ...

We stress that this is not a definitive system – it will not give a simple ‘yes’ or ‘no’ answer to whether conditions are good for climbing. Small differences from the effect of weather on different ...

SST brought the first large-scale commercial climbing operation to K2 in the summer of 2018. Following the pandemic shutdown of 2020, the company found an unexpectedly robust market for Winter K2 ...

We stress that this is not a definitive system – it will not give a simple ‘yes’ or ‘no’ answer to whether conditions are good for climbing. Small differences from the effect of weather on different ...