The Piolets d'Or 2013 are out - Nominations for the 21st edition - a great selection

http://www.planetmountain.com/english/N ... eyid=40696

http://theadventureblog.blogspot.com/20 ... olets.html

Cool stuff. Not sure which one deserves it more. Mazemo ridge seems pretty big, but as I remember was climbed by another team (that did not took the route all the way to the summit).
Other climbs seem pretty good and similar in difficulty too.

Every one of them's a great ascent - how to choose? And this year all the 6 nominated climbs are in the Himalaya and Karakoram.
http://www.himalayamasala.com/blog/piolet-dor-2013-now-we-are-six

Nominees: http://www.pioletsdor.com/index.php?opt ... 57&lang=en