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The Piolets d'Or ([pjɔ.lɛ dɔʁ], "Golden Ice Axe") is an annual mountaineering and alpine climbing award organized by the Groupe de Haute Montagne (GHM), and previously with co-founder Montagnes Magazine, since its founding in 1992. Golden ice axes are presented to the annual winners at a weekend awards festival based on their achievements ...
This category contains climbers who have been awarded the Piolets d'Or (or Golden Ice Axe); includes Lifetime Award winners and Special Mentions Wikimedia Commons has media related to Piolet d'Or winners .
Silvo Karo, (born December 22, 1960) is a Slovenian mountaineer.He has climbed over 2,000 routes and has made more than 300 first ascents on mountains around the world, from Patagonia, to the Alps to the Himalayas in a mountaineering career that has spanned over 40 years. [1]
In September 2024, members of the Piolets d’Or technical committee named Hiraide and Nakajima's 2023 climb of The Secret Line as one of the year's most significant ascents. [33] That October, The Secret Line was honoured with one of the 2024 Piolets d'Or. The posthumous award would be Nakajima's 3rd. [2]
Marek Holeček (born 5 November 1974) is a Czech mountaineer, explorer, author and documentary filmmaker.Holeček has received the 2018 Piolet d'Or [1] award for his successful full ascent on the southwest face of Gasherbrum I with Zdeněk Hák, which he achieved in Alpine style.
2008: Piolet d'Or, together with Kei Taniguchi (谷口ケイ, Taniguchi Kei) for the first ascent of the South-West face of Kamet (7756m, India) in alpine style 2017: The 26th Piolet d'Or Award and The 12th Piolet d'Or Asia Award, together with Kenro Nakajima for the first ascent of the North-East face of Shispare (7611m, Pakistan) in alpine style.
Mark Richey (born 1958) is an American rock climber and alpinist with a history of significant first ascents around the world, and for which he won the Piolets d'Or, the highest award in mountaineering, in 2012 and in 2020. [1] Richey was also made president of the American Alpine Club from 2003 to 2006. [2]
In 2021, the New York Times called the Piolets d'Or, alpine climbing's most important award, "A Climbing Award That May Be a Winner’s Last", due to the number of fatalities of past winners. [15] Additional risks faced by alpinists to the risks of rock climbing, ice climbing, and mixed climbing, are: [16] [17] Rockfall. Alpine-type rock faces ...