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Yesterday morning Carletto Alverà Lete passed away at the age of 92. The Italian was the flag bearer of the Gruppo Scoiattoli di cortina, a mountain guide and ski instructor. He takes with him another piece of the history of...

First free ascents of the routes Nicola Molin on Becco di Mezzodì (7c, 285m) and Via Benjamin (7c, 290m) up the Pilastro della Tofana di Mezzo in the Dolomites by Ruggero Zardini.

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

The sport climbs at Cinque Torri, the historic symbol of alpinism and rock climbing in cortina and the Ampezzo valley.

Via ferrata degli Alpini, Col dei Bois, Dolomites, described by cortina Mountain Guide Enrico Maioni.

Marco Da Pozzo died this morning after falling from the roof of the church steeple he was fixing at cortina d'Ampezzo. An extremely talented climber and alpinist, Marco Da Pozzo was one of the most famous and highly regarded members...

Paolo Tassi and the joy of skiing: skiing freely between the emotions of art which renews itsself with each snowfall.

Lino Lacedelli, 84, passed away in cortina, Italy this morning. In 1954 the member of the famous Scoiattoli mountaineering club became the first person to reach the summit of K2, together with Achille Compagnoni.

On 03/10/2009 Luca Zardini made the frst ascent of "Welcome to the club" at the Campo boulders at cortina d'Ampezzo which he believes is 9a.

On 03/10/2009 Luca Zardini made the frst ascent of "Welcome to the club" at the Campo boulders at cortina d'Ampezzo which he believes is 9a.

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

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

The cortina Mountain Guides have comunicated that all the vie ferrate around cortina can now be ascended.

On 31 May Luca Zardini carried out the first repeat of La grande linea dei sogni 8c+/9a, the Erto testpiece first ascended by Adam Ondra in April. With this ascent the cortina based climber takes home the poker of the...

On 14/03/2009 Luca Zardini carried out the first ascent of "La linea dei Sogni" (8c+), the extension to the legendary "Sogni di Gloria" at Erto (Italy).

On 09/09/2007 Ramon Julian Puigblanque from Spain and Angela Eiter from Austria won Rock Master 2007. Flavio Crespi from Italy and Tomas Mrazek from the Czech Republic placed second and third respectively, as did Maja Vidmar from Slovenia and Irati...