
A Glasgow man has won the Piolets d’Or, the biggest award in alpine climbing and mountaineering, years after his near-death experience in an avalanche in Pakistan.
The Piolets d’Or (golden ice axe), known as mountaineering’s Oscars, was awarded to Tim Miller, 27, and Paul Ramsden, 54, from the UK, for summiting the previously unconquered and unnamed peak now christened Jugal Spire in Nepal.