Kurt Albert News Today

Climbing with his brother Álex and his father Francisco, Catalan climber Edu Marín has made the second free ascent of Eternal Flame on Nameless Tower (6251m) in the Trango Tower range in Pakistan. Established in 1989 by Kurt Albert, Wolfgang Güllich, Christof Stiegler and Milan Sykora, the Karakorum big wall was first climbed free by Thomas and Alexander Huber in 2009.

The campaign includes selling a new authentic Hoito pancake mix, and a pop-up online merchandise store. Development of the pancake mix has been underway for the past few months in partnership with Thunder Bays Big Lake Pasta. "We started with the original pancake recipe from one of the former Hoito head cooks, but that recipe is meant to make batter for hundreds of pancakes," says Finlandia Co-op interim president Paula Haapanen. She said Big Lake Pasta owner Andrew Murchison "has been an enorm...