Jeff Lowe was a famed American alpinist from Ogden, Utah who was known for his visionary climbs and first ascents established in the US and Canadian Rockies, Alps and Himalayas.
Alison Hargreaves and Jeff Lowe climbing Kangtega, 1 May 1986
Alpine climbing is a type of mountaineering that involves using any of a broad range of advanced climbing skills, including rock climbing, ice climbing, and/or mixed climbing, to summit typically large routes in an alpine environment. While alpine climbing began in the European Alps, it is used to refer to climbing in any remote mountainous area, including in the Himalayas and in Patagonia. The derived term alpine style refers to the fashion of alpine climbing to be in small lightly-equipped teams who carry all of their own equipment, and do all of the climbing.
Moving together on Kuffner Ridge (D, UIAA V, French 4c), Mont Maudit.
Czech alpinists Marek Holeček and Tomáš Petreček [cs] in full gear about to start their unsuccessful 2015 alpine-style ascent of the southwest face of Gasherbrum I
Alpinist crossing a large snow field underneath a dangerous hanging serac, Grand Pilier d'Angle.
The deadly White Spider ice field on the north face of the Eiger into which avalanches and rockfalls are funneled; alpine climbers move through it as quickly as possible.