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In the run-up to the Tokyo Olympics, la sportiva launches Climbing Sparkling Moments, the first weekly storytelling podcast that talks about the game-changer moments of the history of climbing. Episode #1 features the very first international sport climbing competition in...

Three questions to Italian athlete Stefano Ghisolfi regarding Bibliographie, the second 9c in the world freed in 2020 up at Céüse in France by Alex Megos.

From Thursday 24 to Sunday 27 June in Cortina d’Ampezzo (Dolomites, Italy), 3,800 athletes will take part in the 14th edition of the la sportiva Lavaredo Ultra Trail, one of the most important rail running competitions in the world.

Italian paralympic athlete Andrea Lanfri reports about his From Coast to Coast project he carried out on Sunday 13 June, during which he climbed to the summit of Gran Sasso d’Italia. He started at Montesilvano on the Adriatic coast and...

French alpinist Symon Welfringer has repeated numerous hard multi-pitch rock climbs in the Bavella massif of Corsica, including single-day ascents of Delicatessen, Ro.Ma, Parfum de Violence and La Baraka.

Watch Italian climber Stefano Ghisolfi at Céüse in France making his first attempts on Bibliographie, the second 9c in the world established in 2020 by Alex Megos.

Across the La Leze arch in Spain Basque rock climbers Iker and Eneko Pou have made the first free ascent of the spectacular multipitch Jon, first ascended by Rafael Heras and José Otxoa de Eribe in 1992.

Alessandro Larcher reports about his greenpoint ascent of Bombo Balla at Bus de Vela above Trento, Italy. Put in other words, the Italian rock climber repeated the 8b+ sport climb in October 2020 skipping the bolts and as a trad...

The portrait of Egyptian rock climber Wafaa Amer featured in the short film Hura directed by Matteo Pavana and Pietro Porro.

Emanuele Andreozzi, Matteo Faletti and Santiago Padrós have made the first ascent of Pazzione Primavernale, a new winter climb up the NNE face of Cima Tosa in the Brenta Dolomites.

The climbing video of Marcello Bombardi making the third ascent of Lapsus at Andonno in Italy at the start of May 2021.

During a quick visit to Piedmont, Italy, Jacopo Larcher completed two important first repeats on the rough granite of Valle dell'Orco: the multi-pitch Angels and Demons on the Caporal with Barbara Zangerl and the highball Grenzenlos.

American rock climber Brittany Goris has made a rare free ascent of the Salathé Wall on El Capitan.

Two days ago at Andonno in Italy 27-year-old Marcello Bombardi made the third ascent of Lapsus, after Stefano Ghisolfi and Adam Ondra.

Rolando Larcher introduces the splendid crag La Severina close to Palinuro in Campania, Italy. A '40m high overhanging forest of stalactites' developed between 2019 and 2020 that currently boasts 20 routes between 6b and 8c.

Watch Stefano Ghisolfi make the first repeat of The Ring of Life, the 9a/+ freed by Silvio Reffo in 2014 and the most difficult climb at at Covolo, Italy.