Punta Pioda doesn't have the same notoriety as the north faces of the Eiger, the Matterhorn, or the Grandes Jorasses. But it's beautiful and impressive.

Swiss Mountaineer Dani Arnold breaks the record for the quickest ascent of the north face of the Matterhorn mountain in the Alps. The 1,100 meter-high climb usually takes mountain climbers between ...

What's the best 4,000m peak in the Alps for ... a peak in Switzerland - testament to the concentration of excellent peaks of that altitude there. Progressing to alpine routes can be intimidating and ...

Instead of skiing over powder snow, I surf the internet and discover a course description on the Swiss mountaineering portal Mybergtour: «Climb north faces safely: We show you how!» Four days of ...

Switzerland's Claude Remy provides a chronological analysis ... I know full well that it is very difficult, if not impossible, to make a list of free climbing in the Alps! It wouldn't dare think that ...

a reservoir located at an altitude of 1,810 meters in the Swiss Alps. Swissolar, the country's PV industry association, said this week that the nation needs 50 GW of cumulative installed PV ...

On the latest episode of Running Wild, free solo climber Alex Honnold and Bear Grylls go skydiving, climbing and camping in the Swiss Alps. Before the season, Grylls teased a bit about his ...

Climbers in Switzerland have scaled one of the Alps' last wild faces that had never been previously climbed. The Punta Pioda mountain is a towering 10,620ft (3,237m) peak in the Bregaglia range of the ...

The Punta Pioda mountain is a towering 10,620ft (3,237m) peak in the Bregaglia range of the Swiss Alps. Although it doesn ... north face in an expert four-day climb. The group began their ascent ...