The news
19/07/2011 - Competitions
World Climbing Championship in Arco as seen by PlanetMountain The Planetmountain team is at the IFSC World Championship in Arco: our live reports, our videos and the unbelievable photos by Giulio Malfer and Anna Piunova.
18/07/2011 - Competitions
ParaClimbing Speed World Championship The first ParaClimbing Speed World Championship took place in Arco today. 33 athletes from 11 different countries took part in the event.
18/07/2011 - Climbing
Naranjo de Bulnes, Pou brothers free Gorilas en la Roca Iker and Eneko Pou have freed Gorilas en la Roca (7b+, 200m) on the Naranjo de Bulnes, Picos de Europa, Spain.
18/07/2011 - Competitions
Red Bull X-Alps 2011: Race On! Today 30 adventure athletes set out from Salzburg on the race of their lives: the Red Bull X-Alps.
17/07/2011 - Competitions
Dmitry Sharafutdinov and Anna Stöhr crowned Boulder World Champions at Arco Dmitry Sharafutdinov from Russia and Anna Stöhr from Austria are the new Boulder World Champions! Silver for Adam Ondra & Sasha DiGiulian, bronze for Rustam Gelmanov & Juliane Wurm. Two beautiful finals at the IFSC World Championship in Arco, Italy
16/07/2011 - Competitions
Arco Climbing World Championship: the female Boulder semifinalists Shauna Coxsey & Francesca Metcalf are the first Bouldering Semifinalists at the IFSC Climbing World Championship in Arco.
15/07/2011 - Competitions
Arco World Championship: the male Boulder semifinalists All the hot favourites qualify for the Semi-final. The provisional ranking is led by Hori (JPN) and Lachat (SUI). Others to qualify include the Italians Preti, Moroni and Scarperi, as well as Ondra (Cze) and Fischhuber (Aut).
15/07/2011 - Competitions
Arco World Championship: the start! As mentioned, the Planetmountain team is in Arco to follow the IFSC World Championship live.
14/07/2011 - Competitions
IFSC World Championship in Arco a 10 day climbing celebration The IFSC World Championship kicks off in Arco and expectations for this great sport event are simply enormous.
14/07/2011 - Climbing
Adam Ondra, L'Avaro 8c+ on-sight Adam Ondra has achieved the first 8c+on-sight on Italian soil by sending L'Avaro at the Tetto di Sarre (Aosta).
14/07/2011 - Competitions
Chamonix: Schubert, Ciavaldini, Eiter, Markovic, Kim The first stage of the Lead World Cup 2011 was won by Jakob Schubert. Four women shared victory: Caroline Ciavaldini, Angela Eiter, Mina Markovic and Jain Kim.
14/07/2011 - Competitions
Chrigel Maurer before the start of Red Bull X-Alps Chrigel Maurer is the most successful paragliding pilot of our days and the titleholder of Red Bull X-Alps. In 3 days, the Red Bull X-Alps 2011 will start in Salzburg. In the following interview, we asked Chrigel Maurer 12 questions.
12/07/2011 - Competitions
Chamonix, World Cup Lead & Speed The first stage of the Lead World Cup 2011 started in Chamonix this morning, along with the Speed event.
11/07/2011 - Alpinism
Valery Rozov, the Mont Blanc BASE jump video The video of Valery Rozov from Russia and the recent first BASE jump off the Italian side of Mont Blanc.
08/07/2011 - Climbing
Twll Mawr: new route and The Quarryman Ian Lloyd-Jones and Sion McGuiness add Supermassive Black Hole (F7a, 75m) to Twll Mawr in the Llanberis slate quarries in Wales. Video of James MacHaffie on The Quarryman
07/07/2011 - Climbing
Il mio criceto, new route on Tofana di Rozes The Slovenians Dejan Koren and Sranka Vidmar have stablished Il mio criceto (400m, 7b max, 7a obl.) up the Primo Spigolo on Tofana di Rozes, Dolomites.
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