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01/01/2018 - Alpinism
Dolomites Val Mesdì and the ice climb up Pizza Longata The topo of the icefall climbed in December 2016 by Mountain Guides Simon Gietl and Andrea Oberbacher in Val de Mesdi, Sella group, Dolomites. Not necessarily a new route, but certainly a great winter climb.
01/01/2018 - Alpinism
New Austrian Climbs in Indian Himalaya The Austrian Alpine Club cadet team 'Naturfreunde' celebrated the end of the 2015-2017 triennial with a successful mountaineering expedition to the Zanskar region in India that results in new climbs in the Indian Himalaya.
30/12/2017 - Alpinism
Spectacular solar corona in Antarctica seen by Houlding Spectre expedition During their return from the Mt. Spectre in Antarctica, Leo Houlding, Jean Burgun and Mark Sedon witnessed a spectacular solar corona display.
30/12/2017 - Climbing
Janja Garnbret climbs her first 9a at Santa Linya in Spain Slovenian climber Janja Garnbret has redpointed her first 9a sports climb, Seleccio Natural at Santa Linya, Spain.
27/12/2017 - Climbing
La Sportiva Strange Heroes: Barbara Zangerl Barbara Zangerl and the climb Speed at the Swiss crag Voralpsee are the focus of the third episode of the La Sportiva series Strange Heroes.
26/12/2017 - Climbing
Riccardo Moretti climbs Grandi Gesti at Sperlonga On 6/12/2017 young Italian climber Riccardo Moretti redpointed Grandi Gesti at Sperlonga, one of the reference 9a sport climbs in Central Italy. The report by Maurizio Oviglia.
26/12/2017 - Alpinism
Winter climbing in the Orobie Alps / New mixed route in Valle di Trona In Valle Trona (Val Gerola, Orobie Alps) Cristian Candiotto and Benigno Balatti made the first ascent of Holly, a new climb up Mt. Stanislao. Candiotto provides the report.
24/12/2017 - Alpinism
Monte Vigna Vaga: new North Face climb Valentino Cividini reports about the first ascent of a new route up the north face of Monte Vigna Vaga (2332m), Bergamasque Alps, established on 16 December 2017 with Pietro Pellegrini and Giambattista Cattaneo.
23/12/2017 - Alpinism
Rabenstein Ice Tower seasons start On Tuesday 26 December the Ice Tower at Rabenstein / Corvara in the Dolomites will open to the public. The structure will host a stage of the 2018 Ice Climbing World Cup on 26 and 27 January 2018.
21/12/2017 - Alpinism
Cerro Kishtwar, Huber, Siegrist and Zanker expedition video The video the first ascent of ‘Har Har Mahadev’ up the NW Face of Cerro Kishtwar (6155 m), established in October 2017 by Thomas Huber, Stephan Siegrist and Julian Zanker.
20/12/2017 - Climbing
Finale '68, in search of the climbing history and pioneering exploration of Finale Ligure In order to celebrate 50 years of rock climbing at Finale Ligure in NW Italy, Michele Fanni and Gabriele Canu have started a project to retrace Finale's explorative phase that took place between 1968 and 1975. After following in the...
19/12/2017 - Climbing
Laura Rogora and Anak Verhoeven score Sperlonga and Santa Linya first ascents Female sport climbing: the Laura Rogora and Anak Verhoeven have made the first ascent of two difficult sport climbs: It segid narg 8c+ at Grotta dell'Arenauta at Sperlonga by the young Italian and Ciudad de Dios pa la Enmienda at...
18/12/2017 - Competitions
China debut success for Ski Mountaineering World Cup 2018 The first stage of the Ski mountaineering World Cup was held last weekend in China. Nicolò Canclini from Italy and Laetitia Roux from France won the Sprint discipline, while Anton Palzer from Germany and Axelle Mollaret from France won the...
18/12/2017 - Alpinism
Ice climbing Dolomites: the unknown ice climb up Torre Vitty Ice climbing in the Dolomites: an unknown ice climb, highly recommended by Simon Gietl and Andrea Oberbacher, up Torre Vitty in the Sella massif.
17/12/2017 - Climbing
Climbing video: Alessandro Zeni attempts Bimbaluna in heavy snowfall The video of Alessandro Zeni attempting Bimbaluna at Saint Loup in Switzerland in heavy snowfall.
15/12/2017 - Climbing
Keita Kurakami climbs Neutralism, great Japanese highball The video of Keita Kurakami making the ground-up first ascent of Neutralism, a huge highball boulder problem in Japan.
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