At the start of November 2019 German alpinist Thomas Huber frees his multi-pitch climb Stone Age (8b+) on Untersberg in Berchtesgaden Alps, Germany. 25 years after that landmark climb Huber has now ...

On Hoher Göll in the Berchtesgadener Alps, German rock climber and alpinist Ines Papert has repeated Scaramouche (300m, 8a), a rarely repeated climb put up by the Huber brothers in 1989. Repeating an ...

“You are now on the steepest road in all of Germany,” our tour guide, Wilhelm, explained. At least, I think his name was Wilhelm, though his name may have been Klaus, Karl, or Gunter. I’m not good at ...

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The Kehlsteinhaus on Obersalzberg, once a retreat for Adolf Hitler and other Nazi leaders, has been a mountain restaurant with a stunning view and a memorial since 1952. Hundreds of thousands of ...