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Ben Lepesant reviews Haywire, the short film shot and directed by American alpinist Cheyne Lempe who in May 2015, together with Dave Allfrey, forged a worrying new climb called Deconstructing Jenga (VI, 5.9+, A3+) up Great Cross Pillar on Baffin...

The rebolting project of a massive number of sport climbs on the Greek islands of Kalymnos and Telendos has been completed.

Using a new route on Sardinia’s Monte Oddeu as a pretext, Maurizio Oviglia introduces all the climbs up this mountains beautiful East Face, including the new "L’imbrago… bello stretto" established by Marco Marceddu and Daniele Turco in honor of Oskar...

Simone Moro and Tamara Lunger: how the climbing partnership was formed that, together with Ali Sadpara and Alex Txikon, paved the way to the historic first winter ascent of Nanga Parbat (8126m, Karakorum, Pakistan).

Interview with American climber Kevin Jorgeson, famous for his first free ascent of the Dawn Wall on El Capitan in Yosemite (together with Tommy Caldwell in January 2015), who is about to embark on a two week trip to the...

The Mediterranean. An island. Climbing. The rock climbers. A sea stack. The boulders. The bouldering. And the sun, sea and sky. The E9 Team friends and their climbing trip in this video and in these words.

39-year-old Basque climber Iker Pou has made the first ascent of Cleteropa Original 9a on the island of Mallorca, Spain

Over the past two months Corrado Pibiri and climbing partners have revamped some historical multi-pitch rock climbs at Punta Pilocca, one of Sardinia’s most beautiful crags. As always, some new routes were created by Pibiri, Fabrizio Lampis, Fabio Erriu and...

52 climbs carried out in 2015 have been included in the "Big list" of the Piolets d'Or, the prestigious mountaineering award that will be celebrated between 14 - 17 April 2016 at La Grave - La Meije in France. During...

The video of Jorg Verhoeven and Katharina Saurwein rock climbing in Tasmania.

A quick overview of some of the most important climbs carried out recently by the likes of Adam Ondra, Alex Puccio, Gabriele Moroni, James Webb, Daniel Jung and Jakob Schubert

At Fontainebleau in France Guillaume Glairon Mondet has made the first ascent of "Le Pied à Coulisse", a new boulder problem that at 8C+ checks in as one of the hardest in the world.

Italian Mountain Guide Rudy Buccella discusses his recent trip to the Trekking Peaks of Nepal. To remind us, even in this post-earthquake period, of how beautiful these mountains are and how much help the Nepalese people direly need.

The video Their Land - an aerial Odyssey through Tasmania’s wilderness.

Yesterday 22 December 2015 the body of missing Japanese alpinist Kei Taniguchi was found on Mount Kuro in Japan. In 2009 she had been the first woman to win the prestigious Piolet d'Or.

Download free of charge today’s crag in the climbing advent calendar by Vertical Life and planetmountain.com: Spartan Wall at Kalymnos, Greece with 37 climbs from 4a to 8c+