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From 21 to 25 January 2015, Turkey’s first-ever international ice climbing festival took place at Erzurum (Anatolia). Participants included Anna Torretta (a Mountain guide from Courmayeur) and Spain’s Cecilia Buil who made the first ascents of two beautiful icefalls: Anatolia Pillar, WI6 100m, in Cevizli valley and Sugar couloir (seker...

On 10 January 2015 Ruggero Zardini, a member of the Gruppo Scoiattoli di Cortina, and Alessandro Rudatis from Agordo made the first winter ascent of 40 anni per il Falier (7c+, 380m) up the immense South Face of Marmolada, a temple for climbing in the Dolomites and the Alps.

Yesterday at Corvara / Rabenstein, Italy, the ice Climbing World Championship was won by Russia’s Maxim Tomilov and South Korea’s WoonSeon Shin. Angelika Rainer and HeeYong Park took silver, Petra Klingler and Alexey Tomilov bronze.

Yesterday at Corvara / Rabenstein, Italy, the ice Climbing World Championship was won by Russia’s Maxim Tomilov and South Korea’s WoonSeon Shin. Angelika Rainer and HeeYong Park took silver, Petra Klingler and Alexey Tomilov bronze.

The final stages of the ice Climbing World Championship 2015 are currently taking place in Corvara / Rabenstein, Italy, today. The Speed discipline was won last night by the Russians Vladimir Kartashev and Maria Krasavina. At present the Men’s Lead Semifinal is being battled out, while Italian hopes are high...

The video of the 2015 edition of the winter bouldering festival held in the Krasnoyarsk Stolby Nature Reserve, Siberia, Russia.

The results of the Scarpa ISMF Ski Mountaineering World Cup 2015 that took place in Andorra last weekend.

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

From 9 - 12 April 2015 Courmayeur and Chamonix become the world’s mountaineering capital with the 23 edition of the Piolets d’Or, the most prestigious mountaineering award. Britain’s Sir Chris Bonington will receive the Piolet d'Or Carrière - the Lifetime Achievement Award.

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 onsight ascent of a grade X/10 winter climb in Britain.

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

The trailer for the short film Evolve that documents the evolution of Jacopo Larcher, as a climber and also as a person.

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 Face of Triglav. They did so by climbing the Prusik -...

The short film directed by Riky Felderer about Matteo Bernasconi and his desire to make the first ascent of a new mixed route up the NE Face of Pizzo Badile.

Archive footage of Warren Harding and Dean Caldwell topping out on El Capitan, Yosemite, after the first ascent in 1970 of Dawn Wall, aka The Wall of Early Morning Light.