Piolets d'Or Announces the "Significant Ascents" of 2023
This list of 68 climbs is effectively a "long list" used to select nominees of the prestigious alpine award.
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Preparing for the fight of their life, over a nineteen day push, Tommy Caldwell and Kevin Jorgenson free climbed the Dawn Wall, the hardest big wall free route in the world.
It’s hard to overstate the climbing achievements of Adam Ondra. He established the grade of 9b+ (5.15c) and
Tommy Caldwell’s resume includes the first ascent of the Dawn Wall, 5.15 sport routes, and V14 boulder problems.
In under eight days, Adam Ondra climbed all of the 32 pitches, pulling off the second and fastest free-ascent of
It was a year of jaw dropping lows for the environment and for the outdoors community. We look back at
Tommy Caldwell and Ken Jorgeson top out on the world's first free-climb of the Dawn Wall of El
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