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Interview with Slovenian climbing legend Silvo Karo who this weekend at Briançon in France will receive the Piolet d'Or Carrière - Lifetime Achievement Award 2022 for his mountaineering that spans the last four decades and includes more than 300 first...

Slovenian alpinist Silvo Karo is to receive the 14th Piolets d'Or Carrière Lifetime Achievement Award. The prize giving ceremony will be celebrated from 17 to 20 November at Briançon in France. In the past the prestigious mountaineering prize has been...

Belayed by Jonathan Lechner, on 31/08/2021 Austrian climber Louis Gundolf repeated 'Safety Discussion', a difficult multipitch established in 2012 by David Lama and Peter Ortner on the South Face of Laserz in the Lienz Dolomites, Austria.

The trailer of cerro torre - Climb & Fly, the film that documents the ascent of cerro torre in Patagonia carried out by Roger Schäli, Mario Heller and Pablo Pontoriero, and their subsequent paraglide flight off the summit.

The video portrait, directed by Matteo Pavana and Marco Zanone, of Fabian Buhl. In order to find his own way, the German alpinist has decided to take a step back so as to make a step forward.

The Cala Cimenti Award 2022 has been given to Italian mountaineer Matteo Della Bordella 'For the incredible rescue carried out in January 2022 on cerro torre of friends Tomy Aguilo and Korra Pesce. A demonstration of absolute strength, courage, selflessness...

Elite Italian High Mountain Military Corps alpinists Matteo Della Bordella, Alessandro Zeni, Marco Majori, Filip Babicz and Stefano Cordaro have set off on an expedition to Peru where they will attempt a new route up the east face of Siula...

The family of Korra Corrado Pesce, the 41-year-old Italian who perished at the end of January on cerro torre in Patagonia, has launched an appeal asking the Argentine government to register the death of the mountaineer in order to obtain...

In January 2022 Priti and Jeff Wright traversed three of the four peaks in the Patagonian cerro torre range: Aguja Standhardt, Punta Herron and Torre Egger, linking three different routes: Festerville, Spigolo dei Bimbi and Espejo del Viento. The video...

Ondrej Húserka reports about Pain and Gain, a new climb on the East Face of Aguja Desmochada in Patagonia established on 27 and 28 January 2022 with Jozef Kristoffy.

Corrado 'Korra' Pesce, the Italian mountain guide known as one of the strongest climbers of his generation, lost his life on cerro torre in Patagonia.

The El Chalten mountain rescue has announced that there is no longer any hope of finding Corrado 'Korra' Pesce alive. The Italian mountain guide was hit by rock and ice high up on cerro torre along with his Argentine climbing...

41-year-old Italian mountaineer Corrado 'Korra' Pesce was seriously injured in a climbing accident on cerro torre in Patagonia. Loved and respected by all, and known as one of the strongest climbers of his generation, Korra was climbing with Argentine mountaineer...

On 18/01/2022 Roger Schäli, Mario Heller and Pablo Pontoriero paraglided off the summit of cerro torre in Patagonia after having climbed the West Face Ragni route.

Italian mountaineers Matteo Della Bordella and David Bacci have climbed Aguja Rafael Juarez in Patagonia via the classic route Corallo. This is their first summit this season and comes before attempting the east face of cerro torre with Matteo De...

Last Monday 34-year-old Gabriele Moroni made the first ascent of Trofeo dell'Adriatico, a new 9a at Bus de La Stria (Hotel Olivo) close to Arco, Garda Trentino, Italy