What does mean for you "Mezzogiorno" (Midday)? Is the moment when the sun is in the hiest position onto the sky. What does mean "Mezzonotte" (Midnight)? Exactly controversial - sun locate in the lowest position, other side of the Earth

Author: Denis Urubko
Source: montagna.tv

In 2019 the International Jury of the Piolets d'Or has chosen to honour three innovative ascents: a famous face on an iconic mountain of the central Karakoram

On the long west-northwest ridge of Baintha Brakk (a.k.a. Ogre, 7,265m) lie several impressive summits, including Baintha Brakk West (6,660m) and Baintha Brakk West II (6,540m). Max Ten and I had the latter as our goal for the summer of 2018

Àâòîð: Kirill Belotserkovskiy, Alma-Ata

The two men team was climbing the infamous 13km long Mazeno Ridge, the lengthiest arete on any 8000 meters peak

Author: Major General Khalil Dar, Pakistan

How many days can rescue operations last? How adequate are decisions made by the relatives who frequently know nothing or precious little about mountains?

Author Anna Piunova, Mountain.RU
Translation Maria Samsonova, Ekaterinburg

We did not expect so heavy snow fall so we left the equipment into a crevass on 5700m. That's the only possibility to fix a camp in that area so we were forced to fix the tent there

Author: Anna Piunova, Mountain.RU
Photo from D. Nardi's page

There are no walk-downs from the summit of Ordzhonikidze. The easiest route is Russian 2B or French PD. On the icy north face were three existing routes, the first by Alexander Kolegov’s team in 1956. Much later, Vassily Pivtsov and various friends added two more, in 2000 and 2004. All these were 4A or 4B

Author: Kirill Belotserkovskiy, Almaty

Gukov, what about Gukov? My lively imagination was presenting a picture of him dying there on his ledge.
Little by little.
Life is going to seep out of him over a long, long time because he is healthy, not injured, and the weather is relatively warm

Author Anna Piunova, Mountain.RU
Translation Maria Samsonova, Ekaterinburg