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The video of Vanessa François and her ascent of The Zodiac up El Capitan in Yosemite, USA.

Marco Nardi talks about the redevelopment and expansion of the historic bouldering area Ussel in Italy's Valle d'Aosta.

Rock climbing in winter on the Scogliera di Salinella in Sicily, Italy: the beautiful crag Calamancina at San Vito lo Capo. Part 4 of the series "Crags for each season" published together with Vertical-Life.info.

Watch the fourth stage Ice climbing World Cup 2014 unfold live at Champagny en Vanoise in France.

Some thoughts by Maurizio 'Manolo' Zanolla about climbing and the need to be conscious of the choices you make.

Using the Courmayeur stage of the Swatch Freeride World Tour by The North Face as a pretext, Giulio Caresio explores the freeride world by interviewing Nicolas Hale-Woods.

Angelika Rainer from Italy and Park HeeYong from Korea won the third stage of the Ice climbing World Cup 2014 in Saas Fee, Switzerland, last weekend.

Pavol Rajcan talks about the first winter ascent and first free ascent of Královský previs, The King Overhang, up the West Face of Pysny stit, Tatra mountains.

Climbers against Cancer, the charity initiated by John Ellison aimed at raising awareness and gathering funds for cancer research, celebrates its first year of activity.

George Lowe, Erri De Luca, Catherine Destivelle, Denis Urubko, Lin Sung Muk and Karin Steinbach are the members of the highly expertPiolets d'Or 2014 Jury, with complementary approaches, endowed with a mountain spirit transcending the framework and limits of the discipline

On 17 January 2014 Fabrizio Peri repeated Grandi Gesti 9a at Grotta dell’Aeronauta, Sperlonga, Italy.

On 11 January four new routes were added to Creag an Dubh Loch in Scotland by Nick Bullock, Greg Boswell, Callum Johnson, Uisdean Hawthorn, Simon Richardson, Guy Robertson, Will Sim and Iain Small.

Interview with American rock climber Alex Honnold who on 14 January soloed El Sendero Luminoso (7b+, 500m) up El Toro, Potrero Chico, Mexico.

A January update by Maurizio Oviglia about the latest climbing news from Sardinia. This month: trad climbing at Regno di Onan, Capo Pecora, the Supramonte di Urzulei with the new route Sos de Urthullè and Villacidro with the new climb Dream Catcher on Torre Cinzia.

On Saturday at Val de Bagnes (Verbier, Switzerland) Kilian Jornet Burgada and Laetitia Roux won the first stage of the Scarpa ISMF Ski Mountaineering World Cup. Sunday's Vertical Race was won by Roux and Matheo Jacquemoud.

In a warm Busteni (Romania) the second stage of the Ice climbing World Cup 2014 was won by Maxim Tomilov and Shin Woonseon. Angelika Rainer keeps the pressure on by placing second.