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German climbers Tobias Wolf and Thomas Hering have made rare repeats of two difficult routes on El Capitan in Yosemite: The Shaft (Muir Wall free variation) and El Nino.

In June 2013 the South African climbers Duncan Fraser, Leonard le Roux and Benjamin de Charmoy made the first ascent of Dancing with the World (350m, 6c+).

Federico Tosi introduces the great crag Cantobre in France, with circa 80 routes from 5c to 9a a great alternative to nearby Gorges du Tarn.

From 1 - 4 May 2014 Ryan Jennings and Kevin Cooper made the first ascent of Stairway to Heaven up the North Face of Mt. Johnson, Ruth Gorge, Alaska

From 16 to 20 May 2014 the French alpinists Frédéric Degoulet, Benjamin Guigonnet, Hélias Millerioux and Robin Revest made the first ascent of Looking for the Void, a difficult new ice and mixed route up the West face of Siula Chico in the Cordillera Huayhuash in Peru.

Climb China, the guidebook by Kevin Wojton, Karen Thang and Ana Pautler: a selection of the best climbs from China and Hong Kong.

The film directed by Keith Ladzinski of 3 Strings Productions, with Scott Adamson and Jesse Huey in search of the ice climbing potential in Zion National Park, USA.

The thoughts of Manuel Lugli about the ascent of Kangchenjunga carried out on 17/05/2014 by the Italian alpinists Romano Benet and Nives Meroi.

The summit of Kangchenjunga reached by Denis Urubko via the NW Face reveals a great chapter in alpinism and a great team effort which included the great mountaineers Alex Txikon, Dmitri Sinev, Artem Braun and Adam Bielecki.

The video of Muriel Sarkany climbing Punt-X 9a at the Gorges du Loup, France.

An team of young alpinists comprised of Lise Billon, Pedro Angel Galan Diaz, Jeremy Stagnetto and Jérôme Sullivan have made the first ascents of the ice and mixed routes The Odyssey (M7, 6b, A1, 90°, 1100m) up the unclimbed Pyramid Peak and The Iliad (TD+ 900m) up Mount Boucansaud in...

On 18 May 2014 Davide Capozzi and Julien Herry snowboarded down the NE Face of Testa di Valnontey (Gran Paradiso), skied for the first and only time by Remy Lecluse in 2010. The report by Davide Capozzi.

The video of the first ascent of Seltene Erden (80° M4+ V+), climbed by Johannes Bachmann and Manuel Tinkhauser on 8/04/2014 up Wildgall / Collaspro 3273m, (Rieserferner Group, Tauern Alps).

Interview with Austrian alpinist David Lama two years after the first free ascent of the Compressor route on Cerro Torre, Patagonia, carried out with Peter Ortner in January 2012.

The video of Angelika Rainer ice climbing at the Cineplex Cave and Helmcken Falls in Canada.

On 13/02/2014 Alex Luger made the first ascent of Psychogramm, an 8b+ trad climb on the Bürser Platte in Austria.