The weather is devilish and even ordinary basic tasks, such as boiling water or going to urinate, are on the limits of survival

Author: Marek Holecek, Czech Republic

Climbing the almost 1500m route up the face took seven days - seven days of constant physical and psychological tension. Snow pitches alternated with sections of rock, often plastered with ice. Placing protection on such mixed routes is more complicated than on a purely rock or ice route

Author: Sergei Efimov, Yekaterinburg, Russia
Translated from the Russian by Richard Sills