Alpine Mag International

4 days ago | alpinemag.com | Ulysse Lefebvre

Everest has fallen. It was literally taken over by four soldiers dressed in black, in their attempt at speed ascent: Garth Miller, Alastair Carns, Anthony Stazicker, and Kev Godlington. In the race for Everest and novelty, Lukas Furtenbach has set the bar very high. A few weeks ago, we told you how the Austrian guide planned to take four clients to the summit of Everest (8848 m) in seven days, door-to-door. No more, no less. The principle?

1 month ago | alpinemag.com | Jocelyn Chavy

When the most efficient rope party in the Alps passes by, the north faces bend over! In just six days, Léo Billon and Benjamin Védrines roped together the three legendary north faces of the Alps : the Eiger (Heckmair route, in 4h10), the Matterhorn (Schmid route, in 5h40) and the Grandes Jorasses (Colton-McIntyre route, in 4h20).

1 month ago | alpinemag.com | Zoé Charef

The Eternal Flame duo continue their exploration of the finest wingsuit lines in the Alps. On April 11, Éric Jamet and Antoine Pecher marked a new page in the history of mountain flying by making the first wingsuit jump from the Aiguille Verte (4,122 m) in the Mont-Blanc massif. The result: a 2.30-minute flight with a view, and a 2,900-meter ascent to Chamonix. Antoine Pecher tells us all about it.

1 month ago | alpinemag.com | Jocelyn Chavy

It was midday on Monday, April 7, when an avalanche swept down the Annapurna face, killing two Nepalese Sherpas. Rima Rinje and Ngima Tashi were above Camp 2, at around 5600 meters. They were in charge of supplying the camps with oxygen cylinders, when a huge avalanche hit. Miraculously, a third Sherpa, Pemba Thenduk, also caught in the avalanche, managed to escape. All three men worked for the Seven Summit Treks agency.

2 months ago | alpinemag.com | Jocelyn Chavy

French climber Vadim Druelle fell into a crevasse on his way down from Annapurna Camp 3, March 30th. The Himalayan speed climber was rescued by Sirbaz Khan, a Pakistani member of his team, when he was trapped at a depth of twenty meters. Injured and suffering from frostbite, Vadim Druelle was evacuated from the base camp and hospitalized in Kathmandu.