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On 23/07/2009 Geremia Vergoni and Tiziano Buccella carried out the first ascent of their Opus Pocus, on the remote south face of Piz Seràuta on the Marmolada, dolomites.

A new via ferrata called "Sci Club 18" has been created on Monte Faloria in Cortina, dolomites.

Nutella for breakfast, Marmolada for lunch, predicted Christian Maurer (SUI3) earlier today...

The routes and news from Rio Gere, the crag close to Cortina in the dolomites ideal to escape the summer heat.

On 19/06/2009 Maurizio Zanolla, alias Manolo, on-sighted Rock and Blues at the Olympic Wall on Kalymnos, Greece.

On 23 June the Italian mountaineer Michele Fait lost his life skiing from Camp 2 on the Cesen route on K2.

Andrej Grmovsek from Slovenia has carried out the first repeat in a single day of Donnafugata on Torre Trieste, Civetta, dolomites.

On 5 June Giuliano De Marchi, a doctor and strong mountaineer from Belluno, died on Monte Antelao, dolomites. Michel Barbiero, his companion in Alaska 2007, remembers him.

At Easter Florian and Martin Riegler carried out two noteworthy ascents in the dolomites. On 7 April the South Tyrolean brothers made the first on-sight of "Karies" on Sassolungo while on 11 April they repeated Zauberlehrling on Cima Scotoni, all free and in a single day

On 19 March Andrea Oberbacher and Francesco Tremolada carried out the first ski descent of the long and much-eyed Conturines south gully. On 15 March Tremolada had also carried the probable first repeat of the south gully on Piz Ciavazes, first skied by Tone Valeruz.

A selection of icefalls at Sottoguda, one of the most important venues in NE Italy.

From 27 - 28 February 2009 Rolando Larcher and Fabio Leoni carried out the first winter ascent of via Masada (1260m, VIII, A0) on the East Face of Sass Maor (Pale di San Martino, dolomites). The story by Larcher and video of the ascent.

In January Kurt Astner and Emanuele Ciulli made the first ascent of Leben ist jetzt (200m, IV/M7+/ice 80/90°), a modern 5 pitch mixed route in Val di Tures (Riva di Tures, dolomites).

On 26 December 2008 the brothers Florian and Martin Riegler mande the first ascent of 'Sorella bianca“ (M9 WI6-), a new drytooling and mixed route in Val Lunga (Val Gardena, dolomites, Italy).

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

Interview with German climber Alexander Huber, one of the world's most important sport climbers and mountaineers.