Keyword: Ski mountaineering

Good news for ski mountaineering fans: The discipline will remain on the program for the 2030 Winter Olympics and will be expanded to include an individual category. The German Alpine Club (DAV) is delighted – after the crisis within its own squad in the spring, its focus is now on the future.

Just one week after his summit on Lhotse, Bartek Ziemski has now also reached the summit of Mount Everest. As always, he descended on skis – for the Polish mountaineer, this is the ninth eight-thousander he has climbed in this way.

His eighth eight-thousander: Pole Bartek Ziemski reaches the summit of Lhotse without support and is the first of the season to do so – and skis back to base camp.

Mathéo Jacquemoud and Samuel Equy completed the round trip from Chamonix to the summit and back in 4 hours, 41 minutes, and 24 seconds. The French duo thus broke William Bofelli's record from May 2025.

The 2026 Winter Olympics in Milano-Cortina will feature ski mountaineering as a medal event for the first time. This further increases the number of mountain sports at the Olympics.

Jim Morrison completed the first ski descent of the "Everest Superdirect" on the north face of Everest. This includes the extremely steep and dangerous Hornbein Couloir.

Polish alpinist Bartek Ziemski has once again attempted an eight-thousander descent on skis. He had previously reached the summit of Manaslu without bottled oxygen.

Benjamin Védrines' new record for the fastest skimo ascent of Mont Blanc didn't last long: One week after Védrines' best time, the Italian William Boffelli beat it by another eleven minutes.