Nirmal Purja and Kuwaiti Flag on Ama Dablam
This article was first published in English for Rock And Ice Magazine :
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Mondo
Chronicle Boxes IV, December 4 2018
Antarctica
italian adventurer and explorer, was born in a little village of the North East Alpine Region Friuli.
Chronicle Boxes - I, Nov 5 2018
Himalaya
Pumori , October 25 2018
The Romanian trio made up of alpinists Romeo Popa, Zsolt Torok and Teofil Vlad has opened a new route on the South East wall of the Pumori, the iconic 7161 meter peak that overlooks the Everest Circus.
new route - pumori SE ( Romica Popa, Zsolt Torok and Teofil Vlad )
The new route, very cool for logic and sustained difficulty, is mainly on ice with some mixed climbing difficult to protect; it run for 1100 meters, reaching the summit ridge at 6700. 5 necessary bivouacs, three of which on the wall and the last two on the ridge; a day of rest the first, then the second day the final attack, which occurred facing winds up to 100 kmh.
Le retour à l'âge d'or
Between the end of summer and the first month of Autumn 2016, the high altitude mountaineering has experienced a withering period of extraordinary climbing in Nepal, India and China. The common characteristics of very different climbs are small teams,alpine style, the search for aesthetic lines, in difficult mixed terrain, with a style and an ethic that recall the golden age (thanks to Stefano Lovison for this happy synthesis) of the 80s and ‘90, a new route vision on steep and technical lines. Among the expeditions that have achieved extraordinary feats, we have choosen these pair, which we consider particularly significant: