5/15/13 - Alexey Bolotov, 50, who planned to start a new route on Everest's southwest face this week with Denis Urubko, has died in a fall fairly low on the mountain. The top Russian climber reportedly fell in the Khumbu Icefall.
4/29/13 - Three well-known climbers fending off a mob of angry Sherpas after an altercation on the Lhotse Face of Mt. Everest.
4/26/13 - The Neptune Mountaineering gear shop in Boulder has appealed to the social media community for help after a man walked out of the store with a pair of boots without paying for them.
During the same week that Dani Arnold and David Lama climbed a direct new route up the east face of the Moose's Tooth in Alaska, Scott Adamson and two different partners climbed two more new routes, including the first free ascent of the gigantic face.
Dani Arnold and David Lama have climbed a bold and difficult route up the storied east face of the Moose's Tooth in Alaska. The Swiss-Austrian duo raced up the nearly mile-high route above the Buckskin Glacier in just two long days.
Climbing asked partners, friends, and admirers of the late Layton Kor to write a few words in tribute: Jeff Achey, Pat Ament, Chris Archer, John Gill, Steve Komito, Jim McCarthy, Royal Robbins, Steve Roper
4/22/13 - Layton Kor, one of the most prolific and acomplished American climbers of the 1960s, has died at age 74. Kor had suffered from kidney failure and prostate cancer.
Stymied by temperatures too cold for his planned route, as well as a sick partner, Samuel Johnson soloed the southeast face of Mt. Hayes (ca. 13,875'), the highest peak in the eastern Alaska Range.
Ben Erdmann, Jess Roskelley, and Kristoffer Szilas have climbed a very difficult ice and mixed route on the Citadel (8,250') in Alaska's Kichatna Spires. The three men climbed Hypa Zypa Couloir (ED AI5+ M6+ 5.10R A3) in a 70-hour round-trip from base camp, with two frigid bivouacs.
Teton guides Greg Collins and Brendan O'Neill have completed a ski descent of the north face of the Grand Teton, one of America's steepest and biggest alpine walls.
4/6/13 - For the first time in the 21-year history of the Piolets d'Or, all six teams nominated for a golden ice axe won the prize. The awards jury, chaired by British mountaineer Stephen Venables, announced its decision last night in a ceremony in Courmayeur, Italy.
4/5/13 - On the third attempt, Jesse Huey and Josh Wharton have completed The Production, a difficult traditional mixed route on the south side of Mt. Otis in Rocky Mountain National Park.
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