Say, where are you climbing?

The tourskiing season is coming to an end here in Europe and everyone is seriously starting to look at their climbing targets for the summer.

Thus came the idea of the survey – who is going where? I’m dying to find out – and I bet you are too – what’s hot and what’s not this year… Let’s focus on the birthplace of mountaineering for now – Europe, more specifically, the Alps. If you want, we can do similar a survey for you Americanos and Americanas as well afterwards

Right after we get enough data, I’ll share the results – which may be surprising…

So, here we go…!

Big wall climbing: Trango, Pakistan

Check out this video. 4 surprisingly cool French (no offense there ) mountain guides hit Trango wall on a brand new route, taking like 20 days to summit the 1600 meter route. Shows you just how far a great deal of humor, laughter, friendship and bad ass climbing will take you take all of them very seriously.

The funny thing is that one of the guys acutally “left” the team above 5500 meters – he jumped off with his wingsuit!

The team named their “project” – or the video at least Azazel, which is a name used for Satan in the Bible. Hmm, wonder what’s up with that…
Thanks to gorida.com for pointing this video out in his blog.

Your “mandatory” Matterhorn climb

OK, of course, it’s not mandatory. But one thing’s for sure. If you’ve gotten your hands dirty with [TAG-TEC] mountaineering [/TAG-TEC] and were under the impression that “OK, I want this stuff,” then sooner or later you’ll want to nail one of the most emblematic peaks on the Planet: the big, bad [TAG-TEC]Matterhorn.[/TAG-TEC] Am I right?

Seriously. No matter if you’re a young titan or a 40-ish dude with a small beer-belly who started climbing a bit too late, you probably want this mountain – or have it already – on your list. (Or you ,may have scaled it already.)

Pretty high up on the Hörligrat

If you’re a Brit or a Euro, don’t think you’re the only one crazy about this peak. Check out the “toplist” on the most visited climbing social site on the web, summitpost.org. Here you’ll see that on the list of “most searched for mountains”, the [TAG-SELF]Matterhorn[/TAG-SELF] comes in at no. 2 outside the American contintent (the most popular is Mt. Blanc). And it’s the sixth most popular peak all-in-all on Summitpost.

Thus ariseth the question: what do you need to climb the Matterhorn? More »

Tags: Climbing, Hörnligrat, matterhorn, mountain, mountain guide, mountaineering, Pollux