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The video of the first ascent of El Lobo del Desierto, a new multi-pitch rock climb established by Rolando Larcher, Maurizio Oviglia and Luca Giupponi at the start of January 2016 up the East and North Faces of Pico Pirineos at Monterrey in Mexico.

Italian photographer Fabiano Ventura is currently in the Torres del Paine National Park in Chile, Patagonia. The expedition he is leading plans to photograph the exact same locations as those taken by Alberto Maria De Agostini as part of multi-year project "On the trails of the glaciers" in order to...

Alessandro Beber retraces the climbing expedition to the Republic of Chad, carried out toward the end of 2015 together with Stefano Angelini, Fabrizio Dellai, Matteo Faletti, Jiri Leskovjan, Alessandro Lucchi and Piero Ravà.

The video of Jakob Schubert making the first repeat of La planta de shiva, the 9b sports climb at Villanueva del Rosario in Spain.

Jozef Kristoffy, Martin Krasnansky and Vlado Linek have made the first ascent of El Condor Pasa (8b, 700m) on Cerro Trinidad Central in the Cochamo valley in Patagonia, Chile.

On 01/03/2016 Slovenia's Klemen Becan made the first ascent of Joe Mama 9a+ at Oliana in Spain.

Over a 15-day period from 16 January to 20 February Ines Papert, Mayan Smith-Gobat and Thomas Senf repeated Riders on the Storm (7c+, A2, 1300m), the iconic multi-pitch rock climb up the Central Tower of the Torres del Paine in Patagonia. Although some sections were climbed with the use of...

Altitoy Ternua, the first stage of the ski mountaineering circuit "La Grande Course 2016”, was won on Sunday 28 February 2016 by Mathéo Jacquemoud - Kilian Jornet Burgada and Axelle Mollaret - Laetitia Roux.

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 Maurizio Oviglia, who now provides the most recent updates.

On Sunday 28 February 2016 the 7th biennial ski mountaineering competition Tris Rotondo took place in Switzerland’s Canton Ticino, Switzerland. The men’s Super Tris competition was won by Filippo Barazzuol & Maguet Nadir while Jennifer Fiechter & Lorna Bonnel won the women's event.

On Sunday 28 February 2016 the 14-year-old climber Laura Rogora redpointed her first 9a, Grandi Gesti at Grotta dell’Arenauta, Sperlonga, Italy.

At Tomorrow's World in the Dolomites France's Gaetan Raymond has made the first repeat of A Line Above The Sky, the difficult dry tooling climb first ascended by Tom Ballard in January 2016.

The video of Dan Bates, Read Macadam and Philippe Ribière bouldering and climbing in Sultanate of Oman.

On Friday 26 February 2016 Italy's Simone Moro, Spain's Alex Txikon and Pakistan's Ali Sadpara successfully carried out the historic first winter ascent of Nanga Parbat (8126m, Karakorum, Pakistan). Italy's Tamara Lunger stopped her bid on the ridge below the summit. Towards 20:00 circa (Pakistan time) all four alpinists returned...

The official video of King of Dolomites 2016, the freeride photo contest won on 21 February by German photographer Klaus Polzer.

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 24th edition, Polish mountaineer Wojciech Kurtyka will receive the...