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From 5 - 8 May 2011 the 8th edition of the Melloblocco will take place in Val Masino, Sondrio, Italy. The Melloblocco is the biggest and most important bouldering meeting in the world and this year it is dedicated to...

Swiss alpinist Ueli Steck is back in the Himalaya, at present in Shisha Pangma base camp, ready for an attempt up the South Face together with Don Bowie

Interview with Adam Ondra after his repeat of Chilam Balam 9b, the route claimed by Bernabé Fernandez in 2003 at Villanueva del Rosario, Spain.

The first stage of the Bouldering and Speed World Cup 2011 will take place from Thursday 14 - Sunday 17 April in Milan. 166 athletes from all over the world will travel to the enchaning Sempione Park for these four...

The British Mountaineering Council has issued important Campus Board advice aimed primarily at children and teenagers. Interview with Dr. Volker Schöffl

Eva Scroccaro repeats "Il Padrone Assoluto" 8a/8a+ at Napoleonica and the video of Tito Traversa climbing "Je est un autre" 8b at Castillon in France, filmed by Andrea Tosi.

American climber Kevin Jorgeson has carried out the probable second ascent of Transporter Room, the highball boulder problem on the Grandpa Peabody at the Buttermilks, USA, established by Dale Bard in the late '80's.

Two beautiful boulder problems, Mandragore and Portici, established by the Swiss climber Fred Nicole close to Domodossola and Cresciano.

The video of the historic first ascent of Supercrack of the Desert, at Indian Creek in Utah (USA), established in 1976 by Earl Wiggins, Ed Webster and Bryan Becker.

On 24/03/2011 Tito Traversa sent his second 8b, Criptonite at the Tetto di Sarre in Italy

Austrian boulderer Bernd Zangerl has established two new boulder problems in Switzerland's Tessin, Guilty of the Hilti and Humphrey Bogart (Gedächtnisweg)

Interview with American climber Sasha DiGiulian after her cutting-edge 8c+ redpoints of Southern Smoke and Lucifer and her 8b+ on-sight of Omaha Beach, all at Red River Gorge, Kentucky, USA.

The video of Gabriele Moroni, the only Italian to have redpointed Action Directe, first climbed by Wolfgang Güllich in the Frankenjura, Germany.

Every year the American Alpine Club awards more $50,000 every year in the form of climbing, conservation, and research grants to budding adventurers and many 2011 deadlines are fast approaching. climbers must not necessarily be of USA origin to be...

The IXX Piolet d'Or will take place from 13 - 16 April 2011 at Courmayeur and Chamonix (Mont Blanc). Six ascents are in the running for the golden ice axe, while the great British mountaineer Doug Scott will receive the...

Interview with Belgian climbers Nicolas Favresse and Sean Villanueva after their on-sight ascent up the East Face of Fitz Roy, Patagonia.