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Australian rock climber Monique Forestier has climbed Tiger Cat (33, 8c, 14b) at Elphinstone, Blue Mountains, Australia.

On 6 January 2015 at Cresciano, Tessin (Switzerland), Giuliano Cameroni repeated Dreamtime 8C.

On December 28, 2014 at the drytooling crag Bus del Quai, Iseo, French climber Jeff Mercier made the first ascent of Low G Man, a combination of three existing drytooling routes. Graded D14 this is now the hardest total dry...

Breaking news from Yosemite: America’s Tommy Caldwell has just managed to redpoint the final 5.14 pitch, half-way up Dawn Wall, El Capitan, USA.

On 03/01/2015 Cristian Candiotto, Riccardo Coppa and Carlo Ravelli climbed the icefall Water Resistant (II/4+5, 300m), a probable new first ascent in Valle di Trona, Lombardy, Italy.

The sixth and final video of the Petzl RocTrip 2014 and the climbing at Olympos, Geyikbayiri and Citdibi in Turkey.

At the Italian crag Nasolino (Valle Seriana) young Luca Bana celebrated his 17th birthday by climbing his first 8a.

Huge progress has been made by Tommy Caldwell and Kevin Jorgeson on their ground-up attempt to free the Dawn Wall on El Capitan in Yosemite.

The short film Bluetopia about the outstanding climbing, walking, high lining and BASE Jumping in Australia's Blue Mountains. Simon Blair of Mission Control Collective explains the motivation behind this film.

At Chulilla in Spain Klemen Becan has made the first ascent, onsight, of Siempre se Puede Hacer Menos which may well be graded 8c+.

On 31/12/2014 at Oliana in Spain Jakob Schubert climbed his first 9b, Fight or Flight.

A year after his fast solo ascent of the Ragni route on Cerro Torre, the Austrian alpinist Markus Pucher has now soloed the classic west face route again, this time through a raging storm.

American climbers Tommy Caldwell and Kevin Jorgeson are currently on making their ground-up attempt to free Dawn Wall on El Capitan in Yosemite.

On 25/12/2014 Enrico Bonino and Tiziana Parru made the first ascent of Exo-Ciuc! (70m, WI5/II) a new icefall at Valgrisenche (Valle d'Aosta, Saxe Savoie). The report by Enrico Bonino

On 28 December at Varazze in Italy Giorgia Tesio repeated the boulder problem Excalibur sit 8A+.

On 22 and 23 December 2014 the South Tyrolean alpinists Simon Gietl and Adam Holzknecht made the first winter ascent of Wüstenblume, Sass de la Crusc, Dolomites.