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Swiss mountaineers Christian Maurer and Peter von Känel climbed 30 fourthousanders during the first 10 days of their XPeaks project to climb all 82 peaks over 4,000m in the Alps within 72 days.

The video of Adam Ondra & Pepa Šindel climbing in Slovakia.

The Cortina Mountain Guides provide information on the current situation of the via ferratas around Cortina d'Ampezzo (Dolomites). Given the snow up in the mountains, many of the via ferratas are still closed.

After both rounds of Olympic Qualifier Series, Shanghai and Budapest, the following 24 Combined Boulder & Lead climbers obtained a quota spot for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games today. Women: Brooke Raboutou, Miho Nonaka, Erin McNeice, Chaehyun Seo, Zhilu Luo,...

Sunday 23 June 2024 the Olympic Qualifier Series concludes in Budapest, Hungary with Combined Boulder & Lead Finals. The competitions will be streamed live on the Olympic Channel.

Budapest OQS has confirmed who will go to the Olympic Games this summer: Yafei Zhou, Aleksandra Kalucka, Rajiah Sallsabillah, Capucine Viglione, Manon Lebon, Leslie Adriana Romero Perez, Beatrice Colli and Wu Peng, Veddriq Leonardo, Amir Maimuratov, Zach Hammer, Reza Alipour...

Saturday 22 June 2024 the Olympic Qualifier Series continue in Budapest, Hungary this morning with Combined Boulder & Lead Semi-finals, and the Speed Finals. This is the last chance for the 150 athletes to qualify for the Paris 2024 Olympic...

Anna Ferrino, CEO of the Italian outdoor equipment company Ferrino, has been awarded the prestigious Compasso d'Oro Career Prize. The award ceremony was held on 20 June 2024 at the ADI Design Museum in Milan.

The second stage of the Olympic Qualifier Series continue in Budapest, Hungary, today at 10:00 CET with the Men's & Women's Lead Qualification, followed by Speed Qualification at 17:00. This is the last chance for the 150 athletes to qualify...

On 5 June 2024 the Italian-Polish mountaineer Filip Babicz made the first ascent of 'Persefone Extension', a new extreme drytooling climb in the Gran Borna cave at La Thuile in Italy. 54 meters long and graded D15, the route was...

The video documenting the circumnavigation of the Mer de Glace in the Mont Blanc massif, carried out over a period of 9 days in July 2022 by French alpinists Fred Degoulet and Benji Ribeyre.

After Shanghai, the second stage of the Olympic Qualifier Series begins in Budapest, Hungary, today at 12:00 CET. Taking place from 20 to 23 June, this is the last chance for the 150 athletes to qualify for the Paris 2024...

On Monday 17 June a team of climbers hung a banner on El Capitan in Yosemite reading 'Stop the Genocide', to raise awareness of the conflict and put pressure on Israel to end the war in Gaza.

Iker Pou, Eneko Pou and Micher Quito have completed the first ascent of 'Pisco Sour' on the SW Face of Nevado Pisco (5780m) in Peru. The 640m mixed route breaches difficulties up to 85°/M6 and was climbed in a 20-hour...

The Italian climber Pietro Vidi has sent his first 8C+ boulder problem, 'Fuck the System' at Fionnay in Switzerland.

Slovenia's Jernej Kruder has repeated 'Greenspit', the difficult trad route established by Didier Berthod in Valle dell'Orco, Italy.