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At the end of January and the start of February 2014 Rolando Larcher, Maurizio Oviglia and Luca Giupponi made the first ascent, and first free ascent, of Escalador Selvatico (7c+ max, 7a+ oblig, 630m) up the North Face of Akopan Tepui in Venezuela.

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.

Interview with Nicolas Favresse after the ascent, carried out together with Sean Villaneuva, Stéphane Hanssens and Evrard Wendenbaum, of the South Pillar of Kyzyl Asker (China) last September.

Mike Turner, Jerry Gore, Calum Muskett and Raphael Jochaud have made the first ascent of Wall of Paine up the SE Face of South Tower of Torres del Paine, Patagonia. The four were stopped 100m below the summit due to bad weather.

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.

15 years after making the first ascent of the big wall El Gigante in Mexico's Candameña canyon, Spanish climber Cecilia Buil has now established Tehué (VI, 700m 7a/A3) together with Tiny Almada from Mexico.

In September an international climbing expedition comprised of Dave Anderson (USA), Chaohui Zheng (China) and Szu-ting Yi (Taiwan) completed the first ascent of Mt Dayantianwo (5220m) in the Shuangqiao Valley of Siguniang National Park in Sichuan China.

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.

A small British expedition comprised of Tom Codrington, Jacob Cook, Ian Faulkner and Peter Hill and the skippers Angela Lilienthal and Clive Woodman have climbed a series of new routes close to Uummannaq, Greenland.

Diego Pezzoli recounts his recent of the aid climb Atlantis (400m, A1+/A2, 8-/8) up the Blamann Wall, Kvaløya Island, Norway.

Nicolas Favresse, Sean Villanueva, Stephane Hanssens and Evrard Wendenbaum have established a new route up the South Pillar of Kyzyl Asker, China.

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.

Interview with Polish alpinist Marek Raganowicz who talks about the new big wall Bushido (VII– A4 VII+), established together with Marcin Tomaszewski up Great Trango Tower, Karakorum, Pakistan.

The two British climbers Dave MacLeod and Calum Muskett have repeated Paciencia (8a, 900m) up the North Face of the Eiger.

The story of the recent repeat of Divine Providence by Andrea Di Donato and Bertrand Lemaire. Established in 1984 by French alpinists Patrick Gabarrou and François Marsigny and graded ABO, Divine Providence up the Gran Pilier d'Angle was freed in 1990 by Alain Ghersen and Thierry Renault. Even today this...