We examine the mountaineering career of the Duke of Abruzzi, who was born on this day in 1873. The energetic royal was ...

Jeff and Priti Wright have climbed K7 Central in Pakistan, Fitz Roy in Patagonia, and many other adventures. Yet both work ...

The first major U.S. exhibition of Germany’s great Romantic painter is a historic showcase. It’s also a blueprint for how to ...

Easter Sunday falls on April 20 in 2025 leaving limited options for an Easter ski holiday this winter. While some ...

Swiss mountaineer Jean Troillet and the Frenchmen Martial Dumas and Jean-Yves Fredriksen have made the first ascent of "Sébastien Gay" (600m ABO), a new difficult route up the North Face of the ...

Matterhorn south face: François Cazzanelli, Emrik Favre and Francesco Ratti making the first winter ascent 'Padre Pio, Une Echelle Vers le Ciel' (27/02 - 0/03/2022) Planetmountain.com is a site about ...

Asia, home to the world’s tallest peaks, is a paradise for mountain enthusiasts. While the intimidating heights of the Himalayas dominate the landscape, the continent also boasts a range of accessible ...

Wales is a hillwalking paradise. From the rolling Brecon Beacons (Bannau Brycheiniog) in the south to the rocky leviathans of Snowdonia (Eryri) in the north, it’s a beautiful, beguiling landscape with ...

Want to know everything you need to know about how to climb the Breithorn - one of the classic "4,000ers ... or traverse one of our top 10 alpine peaks this summer? The Matterhorn is surely the ...

Photography was another passion of Barry’s, and both Margaret and he travelled around the world with camera at the ready, but they also liked walking and climbing in the Dales, the Lake District ...

On this 331-mile-long trip, you can work your glutes (and a sweat) as you climb the Passo Stelvio ... Go to new heights on The Matterhorn Alpine Crossing It may be Italy’s smallest region ...

Refusal to accept defeat In 1861, Whymper, an Englishman, tried to hire Carrel, an Italian, as a guide to climb the Matterhorn. "Jean-Antoine… was the finest climber I ever saw," Whymper later wrote. ...