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18/02/2013 - Climbing

Fontainebleau: an appeal to all friends of the forest

An appeal promoted by BLO (Bleau libre organisation) to include the interests of climbers in the committee which manages the forest of Fontainebleau in France.

15/02/2013 - Climbing

The Nose and the attempt by Dobrinskiy and Gelmanov

Video of the Russian climbers Pavel Dobrinskiy and Rustam Gelmanov and their attempt to repeat The Nose in Yosemite, USA.

15/02/2013 - Alpinism

Febbre da Cavallo, new dry-tooling crag at Campitello Matese

Riccardo Quaranta introduces Febbre da Cavallo, the new dry-tooling crag at Campitello Matese close to Campobasso, Molise, Central Italy.

13/02/2013 - Competitions

Arco bids for World Youth Climbing Championships 2015

On 8 March in Shanghai (China) Arco will present its candidature to host the 2015 World Youth Climbing Championships

13/02/2013 - Climbing

Amiata trad climbing in Tuscany

Trad climbing around Monte Amiata in Tuscany, Italy, introduced by Federico Schlatter.

11/02/2013 - Events

Kandersteg Ice Climbing Festival video

The video of the ice climbing Festival which took place from 4 - 6 January at Kandersteg in Switzerland.

07/02/2013 - Climbing

The North Face Kalymnos Climbing Festival 2013

This year's edition of The North Face Kalymnos Climbing Festival 2013 will take place from 10 to 13 October 2013.

07/02/2013 - Alpinism

International congress: New Advances in Mountain Medicine and Emergency – second edition

The second international congress entitled “New Advances in Mountain Medicine and Emergency” will be held at the Atahotel in Varese on April 18th and 19th, 2013, organised by the Università degli Studi dell’Insubria in collaboration with the Institute of Mountain...

06/02/2013 - Events

Piolets d'Or 2013: Kurt Diemberger receives Lifetime Achievement Award

From 3 - 6 April 2013 Courmayeur and Chamonix will be the world's capital of alpinism thanks to the 21st Piolets d’Or, the international award dedicated to alpinism.

06/02/2013 - Alpinism

Senza piombo, the interview with Albert Leichtfried

Interview with Albert Leichtfried after the first ascent together with Benedikt Purner of Senza piombo, the new mixed climb established in Vallunga with difficulties up to M10 WI 5 protected only with trad gear and without bolts and pegs.

04/02/2013 - Climbing

How to Big Wall climb by Chris McNamara

Interview with American climber Chris McNamara, an expert big wall climber and author of the recently published book How To Big Wall Climb.

02/02/2013 - Alpinism

Difficult winter ascent of Trollveggen Troll Wall in Norway

Andy Kirkpatrick, Tormod Granheim and Aleksander Gamme have made a winter ascent of the route Suser Gjennom Harryland on Trollveggen (Troll Wall) in Norway.

01/02/2013 - Alpinism

Torres del Paine, new Slovenian North Tower climb

On 01/01/2013 the Slovenian alpinists Andrej Grmovšek and Luka Krajnc made the first ascent of Zuko traverse (V 5.10+, 650m).

31/01/2013 - Climbing

Il Maratoneta, third repeat by Ivan Lisica-Lija and a little history about this famous Manolo climb

On 27/01/2013 Croatian climber Ivan Lisica-Lija made the third repeat of Il Maratoneta, the legendary route first climbed by Maurizio "Manolo" Zanolla at Paklenica (Croatia).

30/01/2013 - Alpinism

Patagonia, news from Fitz Roy, Cerro Torre, the Ragni and more

Fresh news from Patagonia: new routes on Fitz Roy (Flavio Daflon, Sergio Tartari and Luciano Fiorenza) and Aguja de l’S (Josh Huckaby and Mikey Schaefer); The Corkscrew on Cerro Torre climbed by Colin Haley and Chad Kellogg; an attempt currently...