Keyword: mountaineering

With the Challenger 28, La Sportiva is entering a category previously unknown to the brand: technical backpacks. I took it with me for five days of touring, including trips to the Arête des Cosmiques and alpine climbing.

Reinhold Messner will embark on a lecture tour starting in October: 23 dates between Füssen and Ingolstadt, four different programs. From "Nanga Parbat" to "World Mountains – The 4th Dimension". Tickets are available through Eventim.

The 18th Walter Bonatti – Piolets d'Or Lifetime Achievement Award goes to Peter Habeler. The Austrian will receive the award at the end of October in Oisans, France, where the Piolets d'Or are returning after ten years.

48 peaks, 74 kilometers and 9.200 meters of altitude gain in 29 hours and 30 minutes: Innsbruck mountaineer Lukas Waldner achieves the first continuous traverse of the Gleirsch-Halltal chain and the Nordkette in the Karwendel mountains.

Australian Milly Young set a new women's fastest known time (FKT) on the Matterhorn (4.478 m) on July 22, 2026. She completed the ascent and descent from Cervinia via the Liongrat (Cresta del Leone) to the summit and back in 5 hours, 17 minutes, and 43 seconds. She reached the summit after approximately 3 hours and 22 minutes.

The Italian alpinists Mattia Sandionigi and Pietro Saggiante (Gruppo Alpinistico Gamma Lecco), together with Sandro Maranetto, were able to open a new route on the Siula Grande (6.344 m) in the Cordillera Huayhuash in the Peruvian Andes.

The two alpinists Fay Manners and Mathilde Badoual have established a new route on the northwest face of the Nordend (4.608 m). "New Era" (6c, ED+, 550 m climbing) replaces the once snow-covered ascent with continuous technical rock climbing.

How do I use crampons correctly on rock? How should I behave on bare ice, cornices, or in the event of a fall? Professional mountaineer, mountain guide, and physiotherapist Michi Wohlleben explains in the first episode of their joint training series what really matters when climbing with crampons and gives you valuable tips for the high-altitude mountaineering season.