Moro Wins Eiger Award

The North Face team mountaineer Simone Moro along with his climbing partner Denis Urubko has been awarded the prestigious 2009 Eiger Award in Grindelwald, Switzerland, an honour which the organisers dub 'the Oscar of mountaineering'.

The award was launched in 2008 and honours “people who have, through their mountaineering achievements, brought the value and fascination of mountaineering and the mountains closer to the general public”.  In other words it's about recognising inspirational and explorational mountaineering feats.


Moro and Urubko are both renowned alpinists with their most recent achievement being the first winter asccent of Makalu (8463m) in February 2009, a climb regarded as 'the last great challenge for high altitude Himalayan mountaineering in winter'. Makalu is the world's fifth highest mountain.

Moro's career spans some 16 years and around 40 expeditions and has taken him from his native Dolomites to rock, ice and altitude all over the world. He also made the first winter ascent of Shishapangma (8027m).

More about Moro himself on his web site at www.simonemoro.com
More on the Eiger Award at www.eigerlive.ch/en/eiger-award