Objectif 4000 | Episode 1, Pic Nord des Cavales

Innominata from Monzino . ( short edit ) Climbers : Loic Thivierge, Morgan Baduel

David Lama and Conrad Anker became the first expedition ever to reach the headwall of Lunag Ri, a 6907 meters high mountain located at the border of Nepal and Tibet. The Austrian-American rope team gave everything to be the very first to reach the untouched summit. But in the end, due to freezing cold temperatures and strong wind the only reasonable option was to retreat. “Had we reached the summit, our climb would have been perfect,” summarizes David Lama, who’s visited his father’s ho...

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...