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On Tuesday 27 January 2015 Canadian ice climbers Will Gadd and Sarah Hueniken climbed the frozen Niagara Falls.

At Spilia Daveli close to Athens, Greece, Argyro Papathanasiou has climbed Au revoir 8b+/8c.

At Creag an Dubh Loch in Scotland Greg Boswell and Guy Robertson made the first ascent, onsight, of Range War  X/10. This is only the second route of this difficulty to be ascended in this style, after their The Greatest...

Italy’s Angelika Rainer reconfirms her form by winning, for the fifth time ever, the Saas Fee stage of the Ice Climbing World Cup in Switzerland; absolute domination on behalf of Russia’s Maxim Tomilov with three consecutive victories.

On 19 January 2014 Greg Boswell and Guy Robertson made the first ascent, onsight, of The Greatest Show On Earth, a six pitch outing on Cul Mor in Scotland. If the grade is confirmed, this is quite possibly the first...

The report about the first stage of Progetto Icaro 2014/2015 that took place at Santa Caterina, Alta Valtellina on Monday 22 December 2014.

From  23 - 26 December young Slovenian alpinists Matevž Mrak (23) and Matevž Vukotič (24) made the second winter ascent, and first ever from the base of the face, of one of Slovenia’s most famous routes, Obraz Sfinge on the North...

Video interview starring Adam Ondra, filmed on Sunday, 18 January 2015, at the King Rock Verona climbing gym where the Czech climber was a guest and climbed with his fans.

On 14 January 2015, after 19 days on the wall and years of efforts, American climbers Tommy Caldwell and Kevin Jorgeson completed the historic first free ascent of Dawn Wall on El Capitan, Yosemite, USA. Almost 1000m high and with...

The second stage of the Ice Climbing World Cup 2015 took place at Cheongsong, Korea and was won by HanNaRai Song and Maxim Tomilov from Russia.

At the end of December and at the start of January Lukas Runggaldier, Alex Peristi and Willi Comploi made the first ascent of Dlacion de Frea (WI6 / M6, 110m), a new ice and mixed climb in the Sella group,...

Both Tommy Caldwell and Kevin Jorgeson have reached new personal high points during their endeavour to free climb in a single, ground-up push the Dawn Wall project on El Capitan, Yosemite.

Having recovered from a 2014 injury, the boulderer Niccolò Ceria has now repeated Ninja Skills 8B+ at Sobrio and Big Kat 8B+ at Chironico, both in Switzerland’s Ticino and the latter is perhaps his hardest problem so far.

At Chulilla in Spain Klemen Becan has made the first ascent, onsight, of Siempre se Puede Hacer Menos which may well be graded 8c+.

On 31/12/2014 at Oliana in Spain Jakob Schubert climbed his first 9b, Fight or Flight.

On 25/12/2014 Enrico Bonino and Tiziana Parru made the first ascent of Exo-Ciuc! (70m, WI5/II) a new icefall at Valgrisenche (Valle d'Aosta, Saxe Savoie). The report by Enrico Bonino