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06/03/2025 - Alpinism
Joda Dolmans completes wild Tindenåla Winter Solo Swedish alpinist Joda Dolmans reports about his recent Tindenåla winter solo in Norway. The 24-year-old carried out a 'wild journey, in the heart of winter' climbing six iconic mountains in Nordland from December 2024 to February 2025: Stetind, Husbyviktind, Preikstoltind,...

02/02/2025 - Climbing
Adam Ondra flashes 'El Elegido', 8B+ boulder at La Pedriza Czech climber Adam Ondra has flashed the 8B+ boulder problem 'El Elegido' at La Pedriza, Spain, describing the feat as 'possibly the bouldering flash ascent that I value the most.'

30/01/2025 - Snow Ski-skimountaineering
First ski descent of East Face of Mt Hamilton in New Zealand In November 2024 Clémence Cadario, Joe Collinson, George Millets, Jordan Raymond and Romain Sacchettini completed the first descent of the East Face of Mt Hamilton in New Zealand. Collinson provides the details.

20/12/2024 - Climbing
US Congress passes Protecting America's Rock Climbing Act In what is being hailed as a momentous decision for climbing policy, US Congress has passed the Protecting America's Rock Climbing Act. Furthermore, the national park Service has withdrawn its proposal to prohibit fixed anchors such as slings, pins, and...

18/12/2024 - Events
Ice Climbing Festival 2025 at Eispark Osttirol, Austria From 10 to 12 January 2025, the eighth Eiskletterfestival Osttirol Ice Climbing Festival, Austria, will take place at the Eispark Osttirol close to the Matreier Tauernhaus. This year's guest of honour will be the mountaineer Rudolf Hauser.

18/09/2024 - Climbing
Nathan Brown adds Civil Disobedience to Angels Landing in Zion Canyon Earlier this year American alpinist and excavation contractor Nathan Brown, with the help of Jackson Marvell and Sam Mack, made the first ascent of 'Civil Disobedience' (V 5.9 A3) the right of the historic 'Lowe Route' on the north face...

16/09/2024 - Alpinism
Piolets d'Or 2024 announces "big list" of Significant Ascents The organisers of the Piolet d’Or mountaineering award have published the 'big list' of most significant and innovative climbs carried out in 2023. The honoured ascents will receive the Piolets d'Or 2024 award during the celebration at San Martino di...

19/06/2024 - Climbing
Stop the Genocide banner hung on El Capitan in protest against Gaza war On Monday 17 June a team of climbers hung a banner on El Capitan in Yosemite reading 'Stop the Genocide', to raise awareness of the conflict and put pressure on Israel to end the war in Gaza.

09/06/2024 - Climbing
Video: The Disturbing Rise and Fall of Dean Potter The video portrait of Dean Potter, one of the world’s leading climbers who lost his life on 16/05/2015 aged 43 in a wingsuit accident in Yosemite Valley, USA, together with Graham Hunt.

11/03/2024 - Alpinism
Huge Alaska big wall climbed in winter by Paweł Hałdaś, Marcin Tomaszewski Over a period of 10 days from 28/02 to 08/03/2024 Polish mountaineers Paweł Hałdaś and Marcin Tomaszewski made the first ascent of 'Zimne wojny', Cold Wars, a huge big wall in the Mooses Tooth massif in Alaska.

06/12/2023 - Alpinism
Difficult new multi-pitch alpine sport route in Aladağlar, Turkey Seb Bush from Italy, Simon Smith and Mike Turner from the UK have recently established 'Pretty reckless cats' a hard multi-pitch rock climb on the Northwest Face of Kizilin Basì in the Aladağlar national park in southern Turkey. The 300m...

04/10/2023 - Climbing
Adam Ondra at Vranjača establishes Croatia's first 9b At Vranjača close to Paklenica in Croatia Adam Ondra has made the first ascent of 'B je to', the country's first 9b.

03/10/2023 - Environment
Grand Etret glacier in Valle d'Aosta, Italy, loses another two hectares of surface area in summer 2023 Measurements carried out by the Gran Paradiso park rangers confirm a loss of surface area equivalent to three football fields.

17/05/2023 - Climbing
Watch Aidan Roberts flash Momentum (8B+) in Val Bavona The video of British rock climber Aidan Roberts flashing Momentum (8B+) in Val Bavona, Switzerland

10/04/2023 - Climbing
Ascend: Forced to flee the Taliban, Afghan women find a home in climbing The film Ascend, documenting the work of the organisation empowering women in Afghanistan through climbing.

23/03/2023 - Events
Survival by Emilio Ricci wins the XVI edition of Photographing the Park The winners of the 16th edition of the international photographic competition 'Photographing the Park' have been announced. Organised by the National Parks of Stelvio, Gran Paradiso, Abruzzo, Lazio and Molise and de la Vanoise, the competition attracted over 3000 entires,...
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