11/25/12 - Pataclimb is reporting a major new route on the east face of Fitz Roy. Jorge Ackermann (Argentina) and Michael Lerjen-Demjen (Switzerland) completed their 4,000-foot route, Un Mar de Sueños, in mid-November.
11/6/12 - Completing a remarkable double-header of new routes on 7,000-meter peaks in Pakistan this summer, Kyle Dempster and Hayden Kennedy climbed a new route on the Ogre (aka Baintha Brakk), completing only the third ascent of the giant peak in 35 years.
John Frieh and Jess Roskelley snagged a new route on Mt. Wake in the Alaska Range in late October, climbing the south face in a three-day trip to the Ruth Gorge.
American climber Dave Anderson and Taiwanese Szu-ting Yi did the first ascent of 19,259-foot Kemailong in western Sichuan Province of China.
Four French climbers have completed the first route up the southwest face of Kamet (25,446 feet), the second-highest peak in northern India's Garhwal Himalaya, in a superb alpine-style ascent.
In a blitzkrieg long weekend from the Lower 48, John Frieh and Doug Shepherd completed the first ascent of the northwest face of Mt. Burkett in southeast Alaska. The two men helicoptered from Petersburg to the rarely climbed, ca. 9,750-foot peak on Friday, October 5, summited the next afternoon, and flew out Sunday morning.
An avalanche at Camp 3 on Manaslu, the world's eighth-highest peak, has killed at least eight climbers, with many others injured.
8/24/12 - Colin Haley completed a solo ascent of 13,186-foot Mt. Waddington—possibly the first ever solo to the main peak—and then continued over four more rarely climbed summits during a five-day odyssey in the Coast Mountains of British Columbia.
8/22/12 - Joshua Lavigne, Ines Papert, and Jon Walsh climbed 29 pitches up the north face of the South Tower of Mt. Asgard in late July, completing the first ascent of the 4,000-foot Baffin Island wall almost entirely free.
Hayden Kennedy, Kyle Dempster, and the Slovenian Urban Novak have completed a new route up the east face of the 6,934-meter K7 in Pakistan.
British alpinists Sandy Allan and Rick Allen have become the first to summit Nanga Parbat via the Mazeno Ridge in Pakistan.
Sad news comes from France this morning as nine climbers were killed in an avalanche on Mont Maudit.
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