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George Lowe, Erri De Luca, Catherine Destivelle, Denis Urubko, Lin Sung Muk and Karin Steinbach are the members of the highly expertPiolets d'Or 2014 Jury, with complementary approaches, endowed with a mountain spirit transcending the framework and limits of the...

The Lucky Monkey video by American climber Cheyne Lempe.

Yesterday the American climber Tommy Caldwell freed one of the three hardest pitches on The Dawn Wall, the enormous big wall project up el capitan in Yosemite, USA.

Video interview with Alex Honnold and Pete Croft who talk about their climbing and their solo ascents without a rope.

The Yosemite timelapse taken by photographer Shawn Reeder.

American climber Cheyne Lempe has set a new rope-solo speed record on the Salathé Wall, climbing the historic route up el capitan in Yosemite in 20 hours 6 minutes.

The recent climbs of Vanessa François, Hazel Findlay, Pamela Pack, Emma Twyford, Katy Whittaker, Shauna Coxsey, Alizée Dufraisse, Eva López, Ashima Shiraishi and Angelina Scarth-Johnson.

Dutch rock climber Jorg Verhoeven talks about his recent solitary ascent of 5.13a up el capitan, Yosemite.

With the reopening of the U.S. National Parks climbing has recommenced in Yosemite. This season Tommy Caldwell will be joined on the demanding Dawn Wall project up el capitan by Kevin Jorgeson, Jonathan Siegrist and Chris Sharma.

Following the U.S. Shutdown, all National Parks are now officially closed such as Yosemite National Park where the climbers on the big walls will be the last to leave.

Mayan Smith-Gobat from New Zealand and Libby Sauter from America have set a new women's speed record up The Nose in Yosemite, climbing the iconic route in 5 hours and 39 minutes.

In this video made for the National Park Foundation, American rock climber Alex Honnold talks about the climbing in Yosemite Valley, USA.

Vanessa François talks about her dream and her project in the wake of her climbing accident which left her disabled: to climb the Zodiac on el capitan in Yosemite.

In June Steve Bate from New Zeland repeated the Zodiac up el capitan in Yosemite. What makes his ascent noteworthy is that Bate is affected by Retinitis Pigmentosa.

For the first time the geology of the SE face of el capitan in Yosemite, USA has been analysed. The new map could become instrumental in avoiding accidents and rock fall victims.

At the end of May 2013 American climbers Cedar Wright and Lucho Rivera made the first ascent of Mahtah and in doing so have established the first free climb up Liberty Cap, Yosemite.