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Enzo Oddo from France has repeated Ambrosia V11 at the Buttermilks, Bishop, while a host of other climbers including Kilian Fischhuber, Anna Stöhr, Nalle Hukkataival and Alex Johnson have made other important sends.

German climbing legend Kurt Albert died yesterday at 20.45 aged 56 following the accident last Sunday on a via ferrata in Bavaria, Germany on Sunday.

The Piccolo Lagazuoi crag in the Dolomites, 27 routes from 4b to 7b introduced by local activist and Mountain Guide Enrico Maioni.

4 evenings and 4 great mountaineering stories as told by Valery Babanov, Hans Kammerlander, Silvio Mondinelli and Stevie Haston. The evenings will be introduced by Vinicio Stefanello, editor of PlanetMountain.com.

The Piolets d'or 2010 were won by Denis Urubko and Boris Dedechko for their route on Cho Oyu and by Jed Brown, Kyle Dempster and Bruce Normand for their route up Xuelian West. Reinhold Messner received the lifetime achievement award;...

On 4 Janaury 2010 the Austrian climbers Rudolf Hauser, Alexander Holleis and Rupert Huber carried out the first integral ascen of Gamsstubenfall (800m, WI7), one of the last great icefalls in the Gasteinertal, Austria. On 12 January Hauser climbed...

This morning at 05.25 European time the dead body of Slovenian alpinist Tomasz Humar was recovered from 5600m on the South Face of Langtang Lirung (7230m, Nepal) by a helicopter with a rescue team comprised of Swissmen Robert Andenmatten and...

45 year old Arthur Kubista has made the first ascent of Der lange Atem 9a+ at Schattenreich, Höllental, Austria. Maurizio Oviglia recounts this latest ascent of one of the strongest and least known Austrian climbers of all times.

Interview with British climber Steve Haston after his recent first ascent of Descente Lolitta at the Grotte de Sabart in Ariege, France.

Fonzaso, the beautiful small crag at the foot of the Dolomites, with 40 routes up to 8c+ ideal for winter climbing

The 17th edition of the Piolet d'or scheduled for 15 February 2008 in Valle d'Aosta will not take place, as stated by organisers of the prestigious recognition which should have been awarded to the best mountaineering achievements in 2007.

The six candidates for the prestigious Piolet d'or, promoted by the French Montagnes Magazine and awarded in Grenoble, France on 10 February.

New routes in Sardina. Rolando Larcher frees "Il vecchio e il mare" 8b millennium cave.

Mauro Bole discusses his special relationship with 'Mission impossible', the latest dry tooling climb established by the Italian climber at Valtournanche, Cogne, Italy.

Alp millennium 3 Experimenta celebrates this year's outstanding contemporary mountain photography

The Banff Mountain Film Festival 2000 and Banff Mountain Book Festival take place from 1-5 November and are preceded by the Banff Mountain Summit