The hardest women’s mixed climb ever and first ascent Saphira M15 by Lucka Hrozova

Charles Werb explains why he preferred to be supported by a truck

Offer by South Pole kite-skier, Frédéric Dion, together with Mountain Hardwear - submit application by March 15th

After multiple rotations to C1 and a couple of false starts to regain acclimatization above 5100m, the Kinshofer route climbers are finally back in C2 (6100m). UPDATED

Michael Johnson (21) from Zimbabwe was swept off his seat and into the sea.

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Skype chat with the biking brothers, "Piotr, Amazon is playing games with us"

Pythom exchange

Off the mountain, there have been few developments over the past week.

Paul Vicary (left in pic) "Scott, for me, is a huge inspiration in the field of polar exploration.”

With two full route South Pole expeditions in his bag, Langridge is part of the UK Trio who will be setting off from Cape Arktichevskiy

The expeditions will take him to Mongolia, Canada, Greenland, and eventually, Antarctica

From Hercules Inlet: Emma Kelty and Pachi Ibarra reached the end of the earth. Ski Season's End

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Australian Charles Werb on his way to Antarctica

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"Waves, two-meters high, are forcing us back. For two hours, we are still in the same location and I can't see Hubert!"

"Muito perigoso" - pirate stories from the Amazon. Biking in the Amazon – Part VI

Nanga Parbat climbers remain in BC as hostile weather is expected to last until mid-next week, if not more.

2016 North Pole team remembers their 2011-12 South Pole mate

Russian hot air balloon pilots, Fedor Konyukhov and Ivan Menyaylo, plus Fedor's next record attempt

Devon McDiarmid and Stew Edge arrived at Hercules Inlet

"I witnessed a man full of passion and sheer determination to achieve his goals and yet also very humble and kind.”

A full scale blizzard – with heavy snowfall and winds exceeding 100km/hr – is about to hit the Nanga Parbat. With no respite in weather at least until February 4th, the climbers now fight bad conditions in BC.

We Salute You, Lieutenant Colonel

Henry Worsley back in Punta Arenas

Tomek Mackiewicz and Elisabeth Revol are back in Base Camp after a full day descent from 7200m. Meanwhile, Kinshofer route team have extended fixed ropes till C3 (6700) and there are reports of significant progress on Schell route as well.

Henry Worsley and Carl Alvey at Union Glacier

Tomek Mackiewicz and Elisabeth Revol are back in C4 (at 7200m) after a tiring day on the mountain. It was a busy day for other climbers as well.

A historic moment is unfolding in the world of mountaineering

Tomek Mackiewicz and Elisabeth Revol have reached 7200m on Nanga Parbat, and aiming to reach summit tomorrow or day after.

Slow progress to Shackleton Glacier. Skiers and kiters meet on Hercules Inlet route.

First summit push of the season is underway on Nanga Parbat.

"Breathtaking beauty" times two. First traverse of Shackleton Glacier.

Things haven’t been moving as per plan for Adam Bielecki and Jacek Czech since a while, and the duo have now announced the end of their expedition. Whereas, Tomek Mackiewicz and Elisabeth Revol may go for the summit.

Completing the 890 km route from the Ronne-Filchner Ice Shelf (Messner Route) in 38 days.

Adventure headlines kicking off 2016

"You will feel like an astronaut exploring a new world on another planet.”

40 days over 1130 km, first Scot and youngest Brit solo, unassisted unsupported

"It’s been already a second meeting with the pirates," reported David Andres and Hubert Kisinski

The climbers on Kinshofer route have decided to join hands and work as a single unit.

Also: Call for the Shackleton Award nominations and Greenland team mate

South Pole skiers to attempt sledge-hauling from Russia to Geographic North Pole (90ºN)

Teams on Nanga Parbat preparing themselves – acclimatizing and high camps fixing - for a potential summit window.

"The boat was handling strong Cape Seas, 40 knot winds & 4-6 metre swells but the pedal system just couldn't beat the conditions"

Each of Nanga Parbat teams is acclimatizing at its own pace.

Wind-chill down to minus 40 degrees; race against time

Explaining routes taken by Twenty Five winter Nanga Parbat expeditions thus far, by data and info-graphics.

After some good days on mountain, all Nanga Parbat teams retreated to BC because of bad weather. ‘Snow and terrible conditions’ are expected to ease a bit, starting from today.

David Andres and Hubert Kisinski crossed into Brazil. "In December 1985, at the same border point, while kayaking I was shot at by the military guards," says author Piotr Chmielinski.

Phase to the South completed, traverse continues to the North

One door closes, another opens. HAPPY NEW 2016!

The climbers need to be adaptive and proactive on Nanga Parbat.

Doug Tumminello received a new teapot, in an awkward situation. Henry Worsley crossed brutal sastrugi and closes in on Last Degree.

After negotiating complexities of Pakistani bureaucracy, all five Nanga Parbat teams are up against the mountain itself now.

Close call for Maciej Tarasin

Shackleton December 25, 1915: "Our thoughts went back to those at home. We wondered, too, that day, as we sat down to our “lunch” of stale, thin bannock and a mug of thin cocoa, what they were having at home.”

Mr Hong is hoping to return to the mountain, as early as spring 2016.

Earthquake on the River, nightmare night navigation, village people and sympathetic thieves

First Ever: Lands End to John O’Groats, in under 84 hours