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11/10/2013 - Events
The North Face Kalymnos Climbing Festival - Storyteller live streaming tonight From 20:50 tune in to this "channel" to watch the live streaming of Storyteller, the special The North Face Kalymnos Climbing Festival evening with this year's protagonists Hansjörg Auer from Austria and Iker Pou and Eneko Pou from Spain. The adventure to be experienced together, directly from the warm and...

11/10/2013 - Climbing
Wild Country Voluntary Recall Classic and Anodised Rocks We have received the following voluntary recall Wild Country have issued on certain batches of Wild Country Anodised and Classic Rocks.

11/10/2013 - Alpinism
Torre Egger West Face, the Ragni di Lecco video Video of Matteo Della Bordella, Luca Schiera and Matteo Bernasconi documenting the attempts and first ascent of their new route up the West Face of Torre Egger (Cerro Torre massif, Patagonia).

11/10/2013 - Alpinism
Kjerrskredkvelven ice cimbed by Matthias Scherer and Tanja Schmitt Video of Matthias Scherer and Tanja Schmitt climbing the icefall Kjerrskredkvelven at Gudvangen in Norway.

10/10/2013 - Alpinism
Ueli Steck summits Annapurna, alone up South Face Yesterday Ueli Steck soloed the South Face of Annapurna (8091m) Nepal, Himalaya. Currently there are no further details, apart from the fact that the Swiss alpinist is already back in Base Camp.

10/10/2013 - Events
The North Face Kalymnos Climbing Festival live streaming Watch live streaming of The North Face Kalymnos Climbing Festival 2013.

09/10/2013 - Alpinism
Broad Peak first winter ascent video The video - documentary by Marcin Powalski about the historic first winter ascent of Broad Peak, carried out in March 2013 by a Polish expedition led by Krzysztof Wielicki during which Maciej Berbeka and Tomasz Kowalski lost their lives.

09/10/2013 - Alpinism
Blåmann Wall, aid climbing up Atlantis on Kvaløya Island, Norway Diego Pezzoli recounts his recent of the aid climb Atlantis (400m, A1+/A2, 8-/8) up the Blamann Wall, Kvaløya Island, Norway.

09/10/2013 - Environment
The Cogne mines between the past and the future - part 2 The restoration plan of the Cogne mines starts at the Ex Anselmetti area where the buildings are still in a good state. A journey between the past and future, with thoughts about the value of abandoned places. The second and final part by Simonetta Radice.

09/10/2013 - Climbing
Adam Ondra, the Gioia and Terranova video The video of Adam Ondra climbing Gioia and Terranova, at 8C+ two of the hardest boulder problems in the world.

08/10/2013 - Trekking
Google maps Switzerland's paths Google and the Swiss Alpine Club (CAS) have launched a project to map a series of paths in Switzerland with the Google Trekker technology.

08/10/2013 - Environment
The Cogne mines, between the past and the future - part 1 On 31 October 2013 the mining concession grant in Cogne will terminate and consequently an important part of the mining history of Cogne and the Aosta Valley will come to an end. Now, more than never, the time has come to deal with the issue of how to deal with...

08/10/2013 - Alpinism
Variant of Li-Cuore up the NE Face of Monte Agner, a mountaineering story Tito Arosio and Luca Vallata introduce their variation to Li-Cuore (450m, VII+, A3, VII- obl.) that climbs between the South Tyrolean route and Via Cuore up the NE Face of Monte Agner (Dolomites).

07/10/2013 - Events
Live streaming The North Face Kalymnos Climbing Festival 2013 Watch the live streaming of The North Face Kalymnos Climbing Festival 2013, the climbing meeting that takes place from 10 -13 October on the island of Kalymnos, Greece.

07/10/2013 - Climbing
Climbing at Ciastlins in the Dolomites A particular crag for sunny autumn days: beautiful Ciastlins in Val Badia. This is the first in a series entitled "Crags for each season" and published together with Vertical-Life.info.

07/10/2013 - Alpinism
Kyzyl Asker South Pillar climbed by Nicolas Favresse, Sean Villaneuva, Stéphane Hanssens and Evrard Wendenbaum Nicolas Favresse, Sean Villanueva, Stephane Hanssens and Evrard Wendenbaum have established a new route up the South Pillar of Kyzyl Asker, China.
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