A Climbing Award That May Be a Winner’s Last

By BY MICHAEL LEVY from NYT Sports Whether the Piolet D’Or, or Golden Ice Axe, alpine climbing’s biggest award, honors or encourages risk is debated in the sport.https://nyti.ms/3xBSlO0

A Climbing Award That May Be a Winner’s Last

By BY MICHAEL LEVY from NYT Sports Whether the Piolet D’Or, or Golden Ice Axe, alpine climbing’s biggest award, honors or encourages risk is debated in the sport.https://nyti.ms/3nYBkKy

David Roberts, Who Turned Adventure Writing Into Art, Dies at 78

By BY JOHN BRANCH from NYT Sports He was an accomplished mountain climber with a literary gift to match, and the author of dozens of books.https://nyti.ms/2WpTKZ8

Bobby Unser, Racing Clan’s Three-Time Indy 500 Winner, Dies at 87

By BY RICHARD GOLDSTEIN from NYT Sports Unser, who was afraid of heights, also captured the Pikes Peak climb race an unmatched 13 times.https://nyti.ms/2Sn28H4

How Climbers Reached the Summit of K2 in Winter for the First Time

By BY ADAM SKOLNICK AND BHADRA SHARMA from NYT Sports It was a prideful journey for the Nepalese climbers, who historically haven’t received their due.https://nyti.ms/2Krx9WA

George Whitmore, Climber Who Vanquished El Capitan, Dies at 89

By BY DANIEL E. SLOTNIK from NYT Sports In 1958, he was one of the first people to climb the 2,900-foot-tall sheer granite wall that looms over Yosemite National Park.https://nyti.ms/3ikiWHo

A Record-Setting Ascent of El Capitan

By BY MARIE FAZIO from NYT Sports Emily Harrington is the first woman to free-climb the Golden Gate route up El Capitan, a 3,000-foot-high monolith in Yosemite National Park, in under 24 hours.https://nyti.ms/3leBda0

Wayne Merry, Climber Who Conquered El Capitan, Dies at 88

By BY DANIEL E. SLOTNIK from NYT Sports In 1958 he and two others became the first to scale a 2,900-foot granite wall in Yosemite National Park in California that many considered practically unclimbable.https://nyti.ms/2P8eeOZ

Davo Karnicar Dies at 56; Made First Full Ski Descent of Everest

By BY RICHARD SANDOMIR from NYT Sports A Slovenian adventurer, Karnicar needed less than five hours to ski 12,000 feet from the summit of Mount Everest to its base camp.https://nyti.ms/30krMyo