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12/04/2011 - Climbing

Eva Scroccaro and Tito Traversa, young Italians on the rise

Eva Scroccaro repeats "Il Padrone Assoluto" 8a/8a+ at Napoleonica and the video of Tito Traversa climbing "Je est un autre" 8b at Castillon in France, filmed by Andrea Tosi.

12/04/2011 - Snow Ski-skimountaineering

Aiguille du Plan north face descents

Two recent descents of the North Face of the Aiguille du Plan (Mont Blanc), by Julien Herry, Lionel Hachemy and Roch Malnuit on 07/04/2011 and, a day later, by Davide Capozzi, Luca Rolli and Francesco Civra. With skis and snowboards...

11/04/2011 - Events

Adam Ondra, bone marrow donor

Adam Ondra has become a bone marrow donor. Pietro Dal Pra and Giovanni Spitale of Climb for Life explain this important gesture for donors and the climbing community.

11/04/2011 - Environment

Kevin Jorgeson & Transporter Room, repeat two decades on

American climber Kevin Jorgeson has carried out the probable second ascent of Transporter Room, the highball boulder problem on the Grandpa Peabody at the Buttermilks, USA, established by Dale Bard in the late '80's.

08/04/2011 - Snow Ski-skimountaineering

Chamonix - Zermatt, new record

On 02/04/2011 the Frenchmen Jean-François Premat, Alain Premat and Sébastien Baud set a new record on the ski mountaineering Haute route Chamonix - Zermatt: 18 hours, 50 minutes and 29 seconds.

07/04/2011 - Environment

The beauty of time

Time in the mountains, measured through the particular lens of Guido Perrini.

07/04/2011 - Alpinism

Piolet d'Or 2011, the program

The program of the IXX Piolet d'Or which will be held in Courmayeur and Chamonix (Mont Blanc) from 13 - 16 April 2011. All the awards, conferences, lectures and debates of one of the most important mountaineering events in...

06/04/2011 - Events

The earthquake in Abruzzo, two years on

Published below is an open letter written by Agostino Cittadini, a mountain Guide from L'Aquila, who invites everyone to not forget the terrible earthquake which shook the Abruzzo region on 6 April two years ago...

06/04/2011 - Climbing

Adam Ondra, Mind Control at Oliana

The video of Adam Ondra on-sighting Mind Control 8c+ at Oliana, Spain

05/04/2011 - Climbing

Fred Nicole, seek and you shall find

Two beautiful boulder problems, Mandragore and Portici, established by the Swiss climber Fred Nicole close to Domodossola and Cresciano.

04/04/2011 - Climbing

Rock climbing on Mallorca at Gorg Blau

Gorg Blau, an excellent warm weather climbing venue to escape from the heat on the island of Mallora, Spain, with circa 50 routes from 4a - 8c.

31/03/2011 - Alpinism

Goodbye Doug Lang

Scottish climber Doug Lang died in avalanche in Corrie Fee on 18/03/2011 aged 69. Simon Richardson remembers the man who played a leading role in the Scottish mountainering for over 50 years.

30/03/2011 - Alpinism

New ice climbs in Norway

Details of the latest ice climbing trip to Norway by Albert Leichtfried and Benedikt Purner who in mid February established a series of new routes together with Gerry Fiegl e Paul Mair.

30/03/2011 - Trekking

Via ferrata Rino Pisetta in Valle del Sarca, new start

A new start for the Via ferrata Rino Pisetta on Piccolo Dain in Valle del Sarca (Arco), Italy.

29/03/2011 - Book-press

Passion Together, in memory of Chloé Graftiaux

A book and non-profit association have been created to honour Chloé Graftiaux, the Belgian climber who lost her life last August in a fall from Aiguille Noire de Peuterey (Mont Blanc). Published below is an open letter by Chloé's parents