Trango Tower News Today

I’m watching Jesse Huey’s iPad, and memories made this summer on his successful climb of Trango Tower (20,469 feet) with Matt Segal and Jordan Cannon.

The Moonwalk Traverse, Saraghrar’s Northwest Face, and Annapurna III’s Southeast Ridge will be awarded in Briançon, France next month.

HBO released the third episode of the Edge of Earth series, and the show has shed light on the complexities of reporting big wall ascents.

HBO released the third episode of the Edge of Earth series, and the show has shed light on the complexities of reporting big wall ascents.

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.

Over a period of 11 days at the start of December 2021 Polish mountaineers Marcin Tomaszewski and Damian Bielecki made the first ascent of Frozen Fight Club (A3, M7, 780m)on Uli Biaho Gallery, Trango, Krakorum, Pakistan.




Babsi Zangerl and Jacopo Larcher’s first date was going surprisingly well. It was looking like they were going to spend the night together — albeit rappelling 28 rope lengths down a sheer rock face. The cable car had shut down hours ago, and the pair were still climbing, off route and hopelessly behind schedule, hundreds of feet off the deck on the south face of Marmolada, the highest peak in northeast Italy’s Dolomites. “My German was really bad at that time,” said Lar...