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Sport climbing: Jakob Schubert has repeated Bügeleisen sit, an 8C boulder problem located in the Maltatal, Austria.

The last stage of the ice climbing World Cup was held at Kirov in Russia last weekend and was won by Switzerland’s Petra Klingler and Russia’s Radomir Proshchenko. The Overall World Cup was won by Italy’s Angelika Rainer and Russia’s Maxim Tomilov.

The report by Portugese climbers Daniela Teixeira and Paulo Roxo about their autumn 2014 attempt to forge a new route up Shivling in the Indian Himalayas.

On Col Turont, Vallunga / Langental, Dolomites, Adam Holzknecht and Alex Walpoth have made the first ascent of the mixed climb Amore e Ombra (160m, M9, VIII, WI5).

At the drytooling crag Bus del Quai di Iseo Lucie Hrozova has made the second repeat of Low G Man, the hardest total dry climb in Italy.

Interview with Italian alpinists Simone Moro and Tamara Lunger, currently at Manaslu base camp where they are hoping to make the first winter enchainment of the Main summit (8163m) with the East Pinnacle (7992m).

Korea’s Park HeeYong and Italy’s Angelika Rainer won the French leg of the ice climbing World Cup after finishing second in last week’s ice climbing World Championship at Rabenstein, in Val Passiria.

The portrait of Massimo Piras, 62-year-old Italian alpinist, instructor at the Scuola Gervasutti di Torino, Academic of the Italian Alpine Club with over 100 new ice climbs to his name during 35 year of continues ice climbing. By Edoardo Falletta.

At Sappada, Northern Italy, the local mountain guides have replaced the abseil belays of more than 50 ice falls. The report by Pierpaolo Pedrini

On 26/01/2015 Ines Papert repeated of the extremely difficult mixed winter climb "Ritter der Kokosnuss" (M12, WI5) located high up on the Breitwangflue at Kandersteg in Switzerland.

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...

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...

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

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.