Several years ago in the issue Alpinist 3, there was an article about the best unclimbed lines in the world. Click on this text to access a short essay on Dougald Macdonald's blog, evaluating where we stand on those same routes. The photograph is a picture of the still unclimbed SE ridge of Annapurna III in Nepal. (Bottom-line ... about half of the routes are still unclimbed.)