It's the middle of September and the plan is to go rock climbing in Glen Clova, a jewel of a valley cutting deep into the south-east flank of the Cairngorms. The weather forecast is atrocious, but fellow climber Robbie and I decide to give it a go anyway. After all, if you never try you will certainly never succeed.

The two Czech mountaineers and Mammut Pro Team Athletes Marek Holeček and his climbing partner Zdenek Hak received the highest accolade for exceptional mountain sports performance. They conquered the Gasherbrum I (8,080 m) via a challenging new route on the south-west face.

Mammut athlete Jakob Schubert is considered one of the top title contenders at the World Climbing Championships in his hometown of Innsbruck. He gave us an insight into his training leading up to this major event.

As an experienced athlete, he is one of the firm favorites. She is hot on his heels. Together they are unstoppable. The Schubert siblings are intensively preparing for the event of the year: The Climbing World Championships in their home town of Innsbruck.

Mammut Pro Team Athlete Dani Arnold has set a new record time on the north face of the Grandes Jorasses. At the end of July, the 34-year-old climbed the Walker Spur (4,208 meters) in the Mont Blanc massif on the Cassin route in 2 hours and 4 minutes.

After their first attempt in 2017 failed, Marek Holeček and his climbing partner, Zdeněk Hák, returned to the Himalayas in May this year for a second attempt to reach the summit of the 6186 meter high Kyajo Ri, climbing a new route.

Lost luggage, beautiful scenery and a boulder wall in the middle of the office – Read and watch what Sierra experienced on her trip to Switzerland.

Nadine Wallner & Simon Wohlgenannt have skied the Canalone Neri, a steep face gully on the Cima Tosa mountain in Italy. A spectacular tour, with 900 vertical meters and gradients of up to 50°. Enjoy the impressive pictures and read the two freeriders’ exciting account of their adventure.

In September 2019, Dani Arnold sets a new record time at the Cima Grande. The Mammut Pro Team Athlete climbs the north face over the Comici-Dimai route in 46 minutes and 30 seconds. The 35 years old now holds the speed record on four of Europe’s six major north faces.

Pro Team Athlete Caro North talks about Expedition Antarctica: “My main concerns were about sailing the Drake Passage, as I didn’t have a great deal of sailing experience - and none at all on open sea. It is also one of the most notorious sea passages, renowned for its harsh weather and turbulent waters.

A few years ago, the Swiss freeskier and Mammut Pro Team athlete Jérémie Heitz set himself a challenge: to ski down the slopes, some with gradients of up to 55 degrees, of the most breathtaking 4,000-meter peaks in the Alps – at speeds reaching 120 kilometers per hour.

Cadarese is a small Italian village surrounded by farmland. A river flows through the valley and the hum of the hydroelectric plant and thunderous booming of the quarries makes it an unlikely climbing destination - natural beauty meets industry.

I’ve travelled to all four corners of the globe on hiking trips, but I’m hard-pressed to think of anywhere more beautiful than the view in front of me right now.

We tramp over slopes of heather and tussocky grass; scramble up a steep gully of stones and scree; squelch through bogs and tiptoe around quaint tarns; and, finally, triumphantly, emerge at the rock-strewn summit.

They wouldn't be out of place in Scotland, or perhaps Scandinavia; but beneath the surface, ripples is a darker story of loss and destruction, but also incredible bravery, that reaches far beyond this little valley.

In a tale of two stories, we asked Alistair Todd, chair of the Ski Touring Advisory Group, an organisation which advises Mountaineering Scotland on all aspects of ski touring, to show us some of his favoured Backcountry ski spots in the Scottish Highlands.

Sam is taking me to some of the caves and caverns left behind by the slate quarrying industry. From the valley bottom, it's taken us about 30 minutes to clamber up to Dalton's home, hewn by quarrymen from the rocks of Castle Crag in Borrowdale.

High up on that wild, inhospitable hillside we left someone behind to brew his own. Welcome to the rough, tough world of Lanty Slee, the Lake District's legendary bootlegger.

At the start of the year, the Mammut Pro Team athlete Caro North swapped freezing conditions in Europe for the Argentinian summer. Just two hours from the famous climbing area of Frey, she and her friends discovered an almost untouched climbers’ paradise.

His aim is usually to stand on mountain peaks. Even for Dani Arnold, starting a climb with a descent into the darkness was a new mountaineering experience. Follow Dani’s adventure in the depths of the Plaine-Morte glacier and his climb back to daylight with an ice axe.