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Angela Eiter from Austria and Ramón Julian Puigblanque from Spain have won their 6th Rock Master Lead. No one ever before has done better than them. Christine Schranz and Jacob Schubert from Austria placed second, Evgenia Malamid from Russia and...

Interview with legendary Swiss boulderer and climber Fred Nicole.

On Saturday 19 May 2012 three alpinists - a German, a Canadian and a Korean - lost their lives on the South Face of Everest, in part due to a sudden storm. Another two alpinists are reported missing, while other...

The Game M13 at the Cineplex Cave in Canada has been repeated by Gordon McArthur.

The thoughts of American alpinist Jim Bridwell about the bolt chopping on the Compressor Route, Cerro Torre, Patagonia

11/02/2012. At Busteni in Romania the 4th stage of the Ice Climbing World Cup was won by Markus Bendler from Austria and Maria Tolokonina from Russia. The Speed event was won by Maria Tolokonina once again, along with her team-mate...

Matteo Bernasconi and Davide Spini have established Cose Turche (300m 7a obligatory/8b?) up Kazilin Basi (2944m) in the Ala Daglar, Turkey.

Interview with the writer, poet and alpinist Erri di Luca by Manuel Lugli. Nine questions to discuss alpinism, the mountains, friendship and life in general.

Day four of the world’s toughest adventure race saw a big shake-up in the rankings. Christian Maurer broke from the pack on Tuesday putting in a stunning four-hour flight to surf to within spitting distance of the Tre Cime.

Today 30 adventure athletes set out from Salzburg on the race of their lives: the Red Bull X-Alps.

Matteo Della Bordella has freed the route 'll mito della Caverna' (8a max, 7c oblig, 300m) in Val Bavona, Switzerland. This route was opened with Luca Auguadri after starting off with Nicola Balestra.

Giuseppe 'Popi' Miotti, the visions of a climber in Val Masino – Val di Mello and the distant vertical galaxies of pure granite.

Paul Robinson stars in Carlo Traversi's bouldering film The Greatest Flasher.

Interview with Italian mountaineer Simone Moro, two months prior to his next expedition to attempt the first winter ascent of Gasherbrum II (Karakorum, Pakistan) together with Denis Urubko.

Interview with Belgian climber Nicolas Favresse after his three month climbing and sailing trip to Greenland.

A commission called upon by the Korean Alpine Federation has declared Miss Oh Eun-Sun's Kangchenjunga ascent as improbable, thus raising doubts as to whether the Korean was the first woman to have climbed all fourteen 8000m peaks.