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The uncut video of Jorge Díaz-Rullo making the first ascent of Cafe solo 9b at Margalef in Spain in November 2021.

On 01/12/2021 Courmayeur mountain guides Massimo Datrino and Gianluca Marra climbed Cascata del Monzino in Val Veny in the Mont Blanc massif. This drip has probably never been climbed before.

The first in a four-part series of Adam Ondra and the journey he undertook to compete in the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.

At Covolo in Italy Silvio Reffo has made the first ascent of Musa, a new sport climb graded 9a.

The video of Caroline Ciavaldini climbing Gaia and James Pearson repeating Harder, Faster at Black Rocks in the UK.

After King Capella, German climber Alex Megos has climbed another William Bosi route at Siurana in Spain, Furia De Jabali 9b.

Last summer British rock climbers Tom Randall and Pete Whittaker spent four days making the first ascent of The Great Rift, a circa 800m horizontal multi-pitch roof crack below a motorway bridge in the UK.

At Gaby in Italy’s Aosta Valley, Marcello Bombardi and Elias Iagnemma have both repeated Ziqqurat, the 8C boulder established in 2015 by Niccolò Ceria.

Watch Alexander Megos make the first repeat of King Capella at Siurana in Spain.

Belgian rock climber Simon Lorenzi has repeated Off the Wagon Low 8C+ in Val Bavona, Switzerland. His is only the fifth ascent after Shawn Raboutou, James Webb, Daniel Woods and Giuliano Cameroni.

Last night at the Milan Sotck Exchange Lorenzo Delladio, CEO La Sportiva was awarded the Italian Entrepreneur of the Year prize for the category Consumer & Retail.

The first ascent video of What We Do In The Shadows, the new trad climb put up by Robbie Phillips at Duntelchaig in Scotland graded E10 7a.

On the east face of Mont Blanc Giuseppe Vidoni and Francesco Civra Dano have climbed an icefall that had never been ascended before. Described as 'a real icefall at 4000m, about 200 meters high in the middle of the Brenva face’, the line then took them to the summit of...

Japanese mountaineer Yasushi Yamanoi is to receive the13th Piolets d'Or Carrière Lifetime Achievement Award. The prize giving ceremony will be celebrated in Briançon, France, from 26 to 29 November.

German rock climber Alex Megos has repeated King Capella at Siurana in Spain. The climb was first ascended by William Bosi earlier this year and originally graded 9b+.

Three women, and three climbs, which helped change the course of rock climbing: Luisa Iovane on Comeback in Val San Nicolò in 1986, Lynn Hill on The Nose in 1993 and Josune Bereziartu on Bain de Sang in 2002. Our article written in conjunction with Vibram, to celebrate climbing yesterday,...