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19-year-old climber Riccardo Piazza has made the second ascent of the boulder problem Ultimo dei Moicani 8B+ at Amiata in Tuscany, Italy.

The interview with 16-year-old Italian climber Matteo Menardi who recently climbed his first 9a, Nove G at Gemona del Friuli.

British mountaineer Tom Ballard reports about his recent ascent of the Eiger that crowned his Starlight and Storm project to climb the six great North Faces of the Alps in winter, alone and in just one season: Cima Grande di...

British alpinist Tom Ballard has climbed the Macintyre - Colton route up the North Face of the Grandes Jorasses in the Mont Blanc massif in 3 hours and 20 minutes.

Interview with Italian alpinists Simone Moro and Tamara Lunger, currently at Manaslu base camp where they are hoping to make the first winter enchainment of the Main summit (8163m) with the East Pinnacle (7992m).

On 02/02/2015 Greg Boswell, Uisdean Hawthorn and Guy Robertson made the first winter ascent of The Messiah on Beinn Bhan in Scotland. This is the third onsight ascent of a Scottish grade X route in a fortnight.

32 years after Renato Casarotto's ascent of Frêney trilogy, also known as the Super Integral di Peutèrey (Mont Blanc), Ivo Ferrari remembers the great Italian alpinist.

On 26/01/2015 Ines Papert repeated of the extremely difficult mixed winter climb "Ritter der Kokosnuss" (M12, WI5) located high up on the Breitwangflue at Kandersteg in Switzerland.

The final stages of the Ice Climbing World Championship 2015 are currently taking place in Corvara / Rabenstein, Italy, today. The Speed discipline was won last night by the Russians Vladimir Kartashev and Maria Krasavina. At present the Men’s Lead...

On 19 January 2014 Greg Boswell and Guy Robertson made the first ascent, onsight, of The Greatest Show On Earth, a six pitch outing on Cul Mor in Scotland. If the grade is confirmed, this is quite possibly the first...

The video tutorial by Christian Core of Dr. Kelios Bonetti explaining the five most common mistakes while training with a Campus Board that force climbers to stop training.

On 14 January 2015, after 19 days on the wall and years of efforts, American climbers Tommy Caldwell and Kevin Jorgeson completed the historic first free ascent of Dawn Wall on El Capitan, Yosemite, USA. Almost 1000m high and with...

Having recovered from a 2014 injury, the boulderer Niccolò Ceria has now repeated Ninja Skills 8B+ at Sobrio and Big Kat 8B+ at Chironico, both in Switzerland’s Ticino and the latter is perhaps his hardest problem so far.

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...

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

The Quest for early season ice climbing in Canada, by German ice climbers Matthias Scherer and Tanja Schmitt