Sadly, one of the prizes will be posthumous. Kazuya Hiraide and Kenro Nakajima won recognition for their new route Secret Line on Tirich Mir. Tragically, the two Japanese perished this past summer ...

An event was organized under the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Culture and Tourism Authority to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the ...

Norwegian mountaineer Ralph Hoibakk is coming back to Pakistan in August to mark his golden jubilee of scaling Tirich Mir, the highest peak of the Hindu Kush Mountain Range. According to an email ...

Japanese mountaineers Hiraide Kazuya and Nakajima Kenro have posthumously received 2024's Piolet d'Or for the unprecedented feat of ascending the northern wall of Tirich Mir in Pakistan in 2023.

The first with his late partner Kei Taniguchi, and the two others two were with Nakajima - in 2022 for their climb on Karun Koh, and for their expedition in 2023 on Tirich Mir. The Piolet d'Or ...

CHITRAL: A team of four mountaineers from Switzerland will scale Tirich Mir, the highest peak of Hindkush range in upper Chitral, after a decade. Talking to Dawn here on Friday, managing director ...

In 1950, when Arne Naess’s Norwegian expedition arrived in Pakistan to attempt the unclimbed Tirich Mir, Streather was enrolled as transport officer. Fluent in Pushtu and Urdu, he was an ...

This momentous ascent to the Tirich Mir peak marks a significant milestone, as it has been accomplished after approximately 73 years. The successful summit by the Japanese mountaineers is expected ...

The Piolets d'Or committee has revealed the winners of the coveted mountaineering awards for 2023. Sadly, one of the prizes will be posthumous. As usual in recent years, the jury singled out not ...