The Mountain People

Breaking the ice! Fabio and Max are back from Chamonix in France, Europe's largest ice fall concentration. They spent 8 entire days climbing ice! Check out some photos...	Ama Dablam reached! Max is back to UK after a 30 days expedition. Although he lost 8Kg, he still keeps all his fingers and toes. Max reached the summit of Ama Dablam, alone, at mid day of 20th october. There was no clouds on the sky! Some photos are already avaliable!
The dream is over - After 15 years without any attempt, the East Glacier Route remains untouched due the"Mountain People" team didn't reach the summit. The driest winter since 1990, didn't allow the ice to form at the east glacier. Even without getting to the top of Aconcagua by the east side, the team summited another 3 mountains during their acclimatisation... Read more...	Tupungato Expedition - Know why we were the only climbers on 2003 to summit Tupungato, 6540 mt high. After the death of one of the germans, some expeditions got intimidated and turned back. The jet streams kept a massive storm at the argentinean side, then we couldn't afford to loose the last summit bit... Read more...
Maximo is back in one piece! - Find out how was Maximo's trip to the Bernese Alps. See some pictures of Maximo's solo climb to the Mönch and Jungfrau. And also two attempts to the Eiger. After some days of bad weather, a lot of snow was still melting all over the south face. After a 15 mt fall, Max had to give up the Eiger. See the photos...	Giants of Alps - Read Max's trip report from the Matterhorn, one of the hardests mountains in Europe. This enormous mass of rock and ice imposingly emerges from 2800 mt and raises up 4870 mt from the sea level. As well as the Mont Blanc ascension, this one was abnormally fast... Read more...
Problems with your back? Don't worry, As we do, you should take only the necessary material every time you go climbing. Learn how to share the weight correctly into your rucksack... Know why you shouldn't load your back with 45 kg. Learn how to expand your rucksack capacity. Learn much more at Related News ...	Atacama by foot - After walking the whole Inca Trail, Max decided to climb the highest volcano on the earth, alone. After being mugged on north Chile, he had to walk across the Atacama Desert with no food and no money. After a 8 days hike obtaining water from cactus, Max got to the civilisation, but was arrested for no having permits to climb the volcano... Read More...
Rock climbing - See the new rock climbing pics selection. Falls, cuts, bruises, and really bad moments. Know everything that you shouldn't do in your rock climbing.	Wallpapers - Check out the best pictures taken exclusively by the team during the last trips across the Andes and the Alps, download it as high resolution wallpapers (1024x769 pixels). Check Out!
Tronador Expedition - After a 1500 km journey straight form Tupungato, we finally had the opportunity to revenge this interesting mountain in south Argentina. Although the equipment wasn't enough when we tried it by first time, three years before, this time we had everything on our side, including acclimatisation gotten on the central Andes... Read More...	Worst Moments - The Route 40 in Patagonia is definitely desolated at winter time. The only ones travelling around in such route were farmers, pumas and lost people like us... The farmers use to keep a dead puma hanging on their fences believing to keep those big cats away and save more sheeps from death. Our problem was that pumas didn't care about it and insisted in jumping the fences. One night, next to a river, we heard some strange noises outside the tent... Read More...