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On his fourth day of climbing Adam Ondra has hit the first hurdle on Dawn Wall: after 7 attempts he failed to free climb the 14th pitch. Graded 9a, this is considered the most difficult up this big wall freed by Tommy Caldwell and Kevin Jorgeson on El Capitan, Yosemite...

Climbing video: Jernej Kruder makes the first repeat of Es Pontas, the famous deep water solo climb on the island of Mallorca, Spain, first ascended in 2006 by Chris Sharma.

video footage of the attempt to climb the Southeast Ridge of Annapurna III (7555m), carried out last spring by David Lama, Hansjörg Auer and Alex Blümel.

Adam Ondra from the Czech Republic has begun his single push ground up attempt to free climb the Dawn Wall, freed after 19 days by Tommy Caldwell and Kevin Jorgeson in 2014/2015.

The trailer to 'The Lappnor project', the climbing film that documents the ascent of 'Burden of Dreams', the first boulder problem in the world to be graded 9A, freed in October 2016 by Finland's Nalle Hukkataival.

The video of Ralf Grabowski making the first ascent of 'Walk the plank' 9a at Rockywand, Kochel, Germany.

On 20 September 2016 Domen Kastelic, Olov Isaksson and Marcus Palm made what is likely to be the first ascent of Jang Tsang Go (6300m) in Tibet. The route is called Dom and graded AI4 M5.

Climbing news from Yosemite: Katharina Saurwein has repeated Final Frontier, while on El Capitan Jorg Verhoeven is attempting Dihedral Wall and Jacopo Larcher and Barbara Zangerl are trying their luck at the free version of The Zodiac.

The second video portrait of Denis Urubko, one of the strongest Himalayan mountaineers of the new millennium.

Italian climber Michael Piccolruaz has flashed ‘Wrestling with an alligator’, an 8B boulder problem freed by Klem Loskot in the Maltatal, Austria.

The video of American climber Chris Sharma attempting 'Perfecto Mundo' a possible 9b+ project at Margalef, Spain.

Interview with Slovenian climber Jernej Kruder who on 01/11/2016 made the first repeat of Es Pontas, the famous deep water solo climb first ascended a decade ago by Chris Sharma on the island of Mallorca, Spain.

The video portrait of British rock climber Tom Randall.

The video portrait of Denis Urubko, one of the strongest Himalayan mountaineers of all times.

The video portrait of American alpinist and artist Renan Ozturk.

On 5 October 2016 Russia’s Valery Rozov leapt from a record-breaking altitude of 7700m off Cho Oyu, the sixth highest mountain in the world.