Piolets d'Or

Les Piolets d'Or
2017 winners Dmitry Golovchenko and Sergey Nilov with their "Golden Ice Axe"
Awarded for	Mountaineering ascents with emphasis on style, spirit and creativity, self-sufficiency, and technical difficulty[1]
Date	Spring (1992 to 2017) Autumn (2018 onward)[1]
Location	France (1992 to 2007) France/Italy (2009 to 2017) Various (2018 onward)[1]
Presented by	Groupe de Haute Montagne [fr]
Formerly called	Le Piolet d'Or (pre-2009)
Reward(s)	A single Golden ice axe (per team), made by Grivel
First awarded	1992 (1992) (for ascents in 1991)[1]
Most awards	Paul Ramsden (2003, 2013, 2016, 2017, 2023) (As at the 2023 awards)
Website	Piolet d'Or

The Piolets d'Or ([pjɔ.lɛ dɔʁ], "Golden Ice Axe") is an annual mountaineering and alpine climbing award organized by the Groupe de Haute Montagne [fr] (GHM), and previously with co-founder Montagnes Magazine, since its founding in 1992. Golden ice axes are presented to the annual winners at a weekend awards festival based on their achievements in the previous year. It is considered mountaineering's highest honor and is referred to as the "Oscars of mountaineering".

The Piolets have progressed from being a competition-like single-award event (Le Piolet d'Or) into a broader celebration of mountaineering and alpinism, with several awards made (Les Piolets d'Or). After a crisis in 2008, the Charter for the awards was rewritten to focus on the style and innovation of the nominations, respect for the mountain, environment, and future climbing generations, and to increase the independence and transparency of the award process; the official name was also changed to the plural.