ascent : 4 videos

Red Bull Dual Ascent is the world's first head-to-head multi-pitch climbing competition on artificial routes featuring 16 elite climbers paired up into 8 rope teams to battle it out to the top of the Verzasca Dam, Switzerland. After the qualification 2 teams compete in the small final and 2 teams ein the final, leaving one winning team. This unique competition concept provides innovation at the highest level of climbing and brings together climbers across various disciplines – presenting new...

Avaatara – Free Climbing the Magical Sinkhole David Lama achieves first ascent of the Baatara gorge in Lebanon “If you travel roads that have already been discovered, you are basically always just following. But if you go somewhere where no one’s ever been and do something no one’s ever done, you’re on the lead and that’s one thing that I really like.” David Lama’s guiding philosophy has already taken him to the most impressive mountain ranges of the world and, more recently, to the Baa...

5 Peaks in a day Alpinist Andreas Steindl crosses five 4000m peaks from Zermatt to Saas Fee in a time of 07h45:44 Zermatt, Switzerland (sgh) – Swiss alpinist Andreas Steindl (26) has accomplished what most people deem impossible: he ran 30.66 kilometres from Zermatt to Saas Fee crossing five 4000m peaks, including the Dom, the highest mountain lying entirely in Switzerland, in a time that awes even the most experienced mountain guides. For the 4,014 metres vertical ascent across pathless...