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On 16 February 2013 Beppe Ballico and Andrea Gamberini made the first ascent of Attraverso Travenanzes (120m, III, WI5+) a new icefall at the Supermario sector in Val Travenanzes which, once again, confirms itself as being an eldorado for ice...

Davide Capozzi reports about the recent ski and snowboard descent of the Aiguille Carrée Couloir on Aiguille Verte, Mont Blanc, repeated on 21 February 2013 together with Julien Herry and Luca Rolli.

Alex Honnold and Josh McCoy have made the first free ascent of Mi Regalo Favorito at El Portreo Chico in Mexico.

Video of Englishman Jez Bragg who ran the 3054 km long Te Araroa trail in New Zealand in 54 days.

Swiss Mountain Guide Urs Odermatt introduces the new crag Lambda on the Greek island of Telendos opposite Kalymnos.

Bon Mardion William and Laetitia Roux from France won the Individual race yesterday at the Ski Mountaineering World Championships 2013. Silver was won by teammates Matheo Jacquemoud and Axelle Mollaret, while bronze went to Spain's Kilian Jornet Burgada and Italy's...

Trad climbing around Monte Amiata in Tuscany, Italy, introduced by Federico Schlatter.

2nd and 3rd day of the Ski Mountaineering World Championships 2013 at Les Ecrins (France) with the Sprint and Individual Cadets and Junior. Italy wins gold thanks to Davide Magnini and Alba De Silvestro!

The video of the ice climbing Festival which took place from 4 - 6 January at Kandersteg in Switzerland.

The second international congress entitled “New Advances in Mountain Medicine and Emergency” will be held at the Atahotel in Varese on April 18th and 19th, 2013, organised by the Università degli Studi dell’Insubria in collaboration with the Institute of Mountain...

The video by Beau Carrillo and Tad Mccrea on the Whillans - Cochrane route on Aguja Poincenot in Patagonia.

On 01/01/2013 the Slovenian alpinists Andrej Grmovšek and Luka Krajnc made the first ascent of Zuko traverse (V 5.10+, 650m).

On 27/01/2013 Croatian climber Ivan Lisica-Lija made the third repeat of Il Maratoneta, the legendary route first climbed by Maurizio "Manolo" Zanolla at Paklenica (Croatia).

Fresh news from Patagonia: new routes on Fitz Roy (Flavio Daflon, Sergio Tartari and Luciano Fiorenza) and Aguja de l’S (Josh Huckaby and Mikey Schaefer); The Corkscrew on Cerro Torre climbed by Colin Haley and Chad Kellogg; an attempt currently...

On 26/01/2013 the Slovenians Dejan Koren and Boötjan Mikuû made the first ascent of Gladiator (205 m, IV, M7-, WI6, X, R) a difficult new icefall on Cima delle Cenge, Valle di Riofreddo (Tarvisio, Tridente area), Italy.

A wildfire has devastated 500 square-km of land in the Cederberg region in South Africa which includes the Rocklands bouldering area.