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24/05/2013 - Climbing

Raptor: Sardinia's Right Wall climbed by Maurizio Oviglia

Maurizio Oviglia talks about the first ascent of Raptor at Jurassic Park in Sardinia. A 25m high 7b trad climb reminiscent of the famous Right Wall, first climbed by Pete Livesey on Dinas Cromlech in Wales.

24/05/2013 - Book-press

Melloblocco 10, the book

Photos, texts, stories and meetings of the first 10 years of Melloblocco: the book that retraces the history of the international bouldering festival which, ever since 2004, has taken place in Italy's Val Masino Val di Mello.

23/05/2013 - Climbing

Armenia, climbing banned on the basalt columns

climbing has been baned on the famous basalt columns in Armenia including Arpa Gorge and Garni Gorge.

22/05/2013 - Alpinism

Tragedy on Kangchenjunga

Five mountaineers have lost their loves on Kangchenjunga in the Himalaya: the Hungarians Zsolt Eross and Péter Kiss, Park Nam Su from Korea and two Sherpa, Phurba Sherpa and Bibach Sherpa.

22/05/2013 - Events

Palinuro, climbing above the sea and the climBrave Festival

Giancarlo Maritano talks about the climbing and climBrave Festival which took place last April on the beautiful beach called Molpa di Palinuro in Campania, Southern Italy.

21/05/2013 - Climbing

Jan Hojer climbing training video

Video of Germany's Jan Hojer training for climbing.

21/05/2013 - Events

Chamonix Mountain Festival 2013

The first Chamonix Mountain Festival will be held at Chamonix in France from 1 - 8 June 2013.

21/05/2013 - Alpinism

Nuptse, Everest and Lhotse by Kenton Cool and Dorje Gylgen Sherpa

Astounding triple in the Himalaya for Kenton Cool and Dorje Gylgen Sherpa: between 18 - 20 May they climbed Nuptse, Everest and Lhotse in rapid succession.

20/05/2013 - Interviews

Colonne d'Ercole, Civetta Punta Tissi, interview with Alessandro Baù

Interview with Alessandro Bau about the massive new route first ascended and then freed up Punta Tissi (NW face of Civetta, Dolomites) together with Alessandro Beber and Nicola Tondini.

17/05/2013 - Climbing

Luce di Primo Mattino, Larcher makes first free ascent on Piccolo Dain

On 18/04/2013 Rolando Larcher made the first free ascent of Luce di Primo Mattino (435m, max 8a obl. A0), the route established by A. Andreotti, B. Menestrina e M. Furlani in 1991 on Piccolo Dain (Sarca Valley, Italy).

16/05/2013 - Climbing

Pete Whittaker frees Baron Greenback at Wimberry

On 4 May Pete Whittaker made the first ascent of Baron Greenback ta the gritstone outcrop Wimberry in England, while Tom Randall made the first repeat of Appointment with Death and Nathan Lee repeated Order of the Phoenix.

14/05/2013 - Climbing

Free solo and Base jump in Crimea

The video documenting Andrey Nefedov on Morcheka in Crimea: a free solo which concluded with a Base jump off the summit.

13/05/2013 - Climbing

Bouldering World Cup 2013: Sean McColl and Anna Stöhr win in Log Dragomer

On 12 May the fourth stage of the Bouldering World Cup 2013 was won in Log - Dragomer (Slovenia) by Canada's Sean McColl and the incredible Austrian Anna Stöhr: this is her fourth consecutive victory.

10/05/2013 - Climbing

Melloclip, the Melloblocco videos part 2

The second selection of video clips of the 10th Melloblocco 2013 which took place in Val Masino – Val di Mello from 26 Aprilto 5 May.

07/05/2013 - Climbing

Azazar, new climb on Tadrarate (Morocco) by Aufdenblatten, Papert and Steurer

In April 2013 Ines Papert, Lisi Steurer and Patrik Aufdenblatten made the first ascent of Azazar (400m, 8a) up the Tadrarate rock face in the Taghia Gorge, Morocco.