Piolet d'Or winners

Italian mountaineer, adventurer and explorer (born 1944)

Alexander J Honnold is an American rock climber best known for his free solo ascents of big wall climbing routes. Honnold rose to worldwide fame in June 2017 when he became the first person to free solo a full route on El Capitan in Yosemite National Park via the 880-metre (2,900 ft) route Freerider at grade 5.13a, the first-ever big-wall free-solo ascent at that grade, a climb described in The New York Times as "one of the great athletic feats of any kind, ever".

Italian mountaineer (1930–2011)

Swiss mountaineer and rock climber (1976-2017)

Polish mountaineer

Austrian mountaineer

Kazakhstani mountaineer

British mountaineer

Austrian rock climber and mountaineer (1990–2019)

French rock climber and mountaineer

Mountaineering and alpinism award

British mountaineer (1941-2020)

Yugoslavian or Slovenian mountain climber

Slovenian mountaineer (1969-2009)

Polish mountaineer and rock climber, born 1947.

American rock climber

Slovenian mountaineer (born 1956)

South Korean climber (1969-2018)

American mountain climber (1950–2018)

Austrian mountaineer (1984–2019)

American mountain climber

deutscher Bergsteiger

mountain climber

British mountain climber