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The climbing ban at Cimai, France, has been lifted.

All the finals of the IFSC climbing World Championship in Arco 2011 will be broadcast live on Rai Sport 1 and Rai Sport 2

The video of Adam Ondra during the first repeat of Chilam Balam 9b and the first free ascent of La Planta de Shiva 9b at Villanueva del Rosario, Spain.

On 5-6 April 2011 the Italians Rolando Larcher, Luca Giupponi and Nicola Sartori established La banda del buco (175m, 7a+/7b max, 6c+ obbl.) a new route up the North Face of Antro della Perciata on Monte Pellegrino (Palermo, Sicily).

DoloMitiche, the vertical journey through the Dolomites by Mountain Guide Alessandro Beber, is now in full swing.

German sports climber Markus Bock has established The Elder Statesman 9a/9a+ in the Frankenjura.

Online as of today the official video Melloblocco 2011, the world's biggest bouldering meeting which takes place every year in Val di Mello - Val Masino, Italy.

Scottish climber Dave Macleod has freed the The Long Hope Route at St John's Head, Hoy, Orkneys, Scotland

Giorgio Tagliasacchi informs that climbing is banned at the new bouldering area Codoleddu in Sardinia.

All the nominations for the VIth Arco Rock Legends, the sport climbing Oscars scheduled to take place on Thursday 21 July 2011 at Arco (Italy) with two awards, the Salewa Rock Award and the La Sportiva Competition Award. The celebration will be held during the Arco 2011 IFSC climbing World...

The French company Petzl has issued a recall which concerns its GRIGRI 2’s (D14 2O, D14 2G, D14 2B ) with the first five digits of the serial number between 10326 and 11136.

On 24/05/2011 Fabio Meraldi and Diego Giovannini established a new route up the East Spur of Kahiltna Peaks West (3914m, McKinley-Denali mountain chain, Alaska).

Interview with the American climbers Alex Honnold and Ray Jardine after Honnold's solo of The Phoenix (5.13a) in Yosemite Valley.

On 13/06/2011 12-year-old Eva Scroccaro from Italy, redpointed Masochismo at Baratro, her first 8b.

Maurizio Oviglia introduces three new crags in Southern Sardinia: Cave of dreams, Villasimius e Broadway

At the start of May Alexander Ruchkin and Mikhail Mikhaylov carried out the first ascent of the Shark's Tooth (1555m) in Greenland via their route 'Dance on Tiptoes' (1210m, VII A2, 6c).