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Sarah Hueniken, Canadian mountain guide and talented alpinist talks about her great love for alpinism, the mountains and nature.

In September 2013 Gianni Tomasoni and Sibilla Bariani made the first ascent of Mille Splendidi Soli (270m, 7a) a new alpine rock climb on Coster di Cima Poia, Val Adamé (Italy).

Stohlwond,the small autumn paradise close to Sterzing. The second in our series "Crags for each season"  published together with Vertical-Life.info.

The video of Ueli Steck: great alpinism and his historic solo ascent of the South Face of Annapurna, Nepal, Himalaya.

Throughout summer 2013 the mountain guide group "Alta Badia Guides" based in Corvara, Italy, completely renovated two of the valley's most popular outings, the normal route to the summit of Sassongher and Via Ferrata Piz by Lech (Boeseekofel Klettersteig), Sella, Dolomites.

A look back at Ueli Steck and his solo ascent of the South Face of Annapurna... I've been surprised for years, and I don't envy them because the great thing is knowing and realising that these "visionaries" are up there, unattainable yet key to all of us who dream....

Alexander Megos and Caroline Ciavaldini have won the The North Face Kalymnos Climbing Festival 2013, the meeting that took place on the Greek island from 10 to 13 October.

Swiss alpinist Ueli Steck talks about his fast and impressive solo ascent up the South Face of Annapurna South (8091m, Nepal, Himalaya) that on 8 and 9 October 2013 enabled him to make the first ascent of the direct line attempted in 1992 by Jean-Christophe Lafaille and Pierre Beghin.

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...

We have received the following voluntary recall Wild Country have issued on certain batches of Wild Country Anodised and Classic Rocks.

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).

Video of Matthias Scherer and Tanja Schmitt climbing the icefall Kjerrskredkvelven at Gudvangen in Norway.

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.

Watch live streaming of The North Face Kalymnos Climbing Festival 2013.

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.

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