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Interview with Hans Kammerlander, one of the driving forces in the mountaineering world, before his departure for K2.

Interview with Italian mountaineer Simone Moro before his attempt of the Everest - Lhotse Traverse.

"Sintomi Primordiali", Sardinia’s hardest trad route, has been repeated by M. Oviglia and S. Sarti

National Geographic’s March issue publishes an account of the first winter ascent of Cerro Torre’s west face by Stephan Siegrist, G. Crouch, D. and T. Ulrich.

Arthur Kubista frees new routes in Sardinia

"The Empire strikes back", M11 repeated by Bubu Bole in the Haston Cave, Valsavarenche, Val di Cogne, Italy.

Steve McClure puts up a new 8b boulder problem at Stanage, England

Marco Anghileri makes the first winter solo ascent of Solleder, Civetta, Dolomites

The 1999 Piolet d'or was awarded to the Frenchmen Lionel Daudet and Sebastien Foissac for their new route on Burkett Needle, Alaska.

The Italian Mauro Bole Bubu confirms his reputation as one of the best ice climbers in the world by repeating Stevie Haston’s X-Files in Lillaz, Val di Cogne, Italy, as well as Welcome to the Machine M10 in Valsavarenche and...

Interview with the quiet, unassuming young climber Manfred Stuffer from the South Tyrol, Italy.

The Northwest Face of the Great Trango Tower, Pakistan has been climbed by Alex Lowe, Mark Synnott and Jared Ogden

The feared climb 'L'avaro' 8c+ at Tetto di Sarre has been repeated twice in an hour.

On the 26th of October 1998, after fifteen days on El Capitan, the 29 year-old Slovenian Tomaz Humar completed Reticent Wall (VI, 5.9, A5 850m). Humar is well-known for his successes in the Himalayas, where in 1997 he ascended Nuptse...

Aldo Michelini, Erik Svab, Laura Ortolani, Mauro Florit and Paolo Codia ahve made the first ascent of TRY (Just a little bit harder) at Ospo in Slovenia.

Never the same, a new rock climb up the granite Tsaranoro Be in Madagascar.