It always seemed such a logical and obvious line to me that I was amazed no one had thought of climbing ... up the mixed section on the crux pitch. A few sections of dry tooling, following by some ...

Do your research, but in summary: Type 1 axes are standard walking and mountaineering axes, suitable for ice axe belaying, but not designed for hard modern mixed climbing. Type 2 axes are more ...

Tyrol's ice climbing scene, driven by the likes of Andreas Orgler, Sepp Gwiggner, Florian Schranz, Michael Höllwarth, Bernhard Schiestl and Georg Kluckner to name but a few, is highly motivated and ...

He demonstrated how to make fast ascents, how to hang off a pick embedded in the ice and compared techniques ... brought Scottish winter climbing back onto the world stage. "Scottish winter climbing ...