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![Vivian Quarry, slate climbing in North Wales](/uploads/img/3/6137.jpg)
26/10/2010 - Climbing
Vivian Quarry, slate climbing in North Wales Vivian Quarry is perhaps the most popular slate crag in Wales due to its proximity to Llanberis and the vast selection of routes of all shapes and sizes.
![Greenland 2010 roundup and Nico Favresse interview](/uploads/img/3/6058.jpg)
19/10/2010 - Alpinism
Greenland 2010 roundup and Nico Favresse interview Interview with Belgian climber Nicolas Favresse after his three month climbing and sailing trip to Greenland.
![Rainbow Slab, Llanberis slate climbing in North Wales](/uploads/img/3/4908.jpg)
14/04/2010 - Climbing
Rainbow Slab, Llanberis slate climbing in North Wales Rainbow Slab is arguably the jewel in the crown of Llanberis slate. The immense, smooth face is broken by a series of smaller ripples and of course by the rainbow itself, a pulsing vein which arches steeply in all its...
![When icefalls crack](/uploads/img/3/4589.jpg)
25/02/2010 - Alpinism
When icefalls crack The story of an ice pillar collapsing. An adventure which thankfully resulted in no injuries, but which provides ample food for thought...
![New climbs in Alaska](/uploads/img/3/3416.jpg)
18/06/2009 - Alpinism
New climbs in Alaska Stable weather in Alaska has resulted in a flurry of new routes by a series of British teams.
![Bolts on Everest](/uploads/img/3/3242.jpg)
06/05/2009 - Alpinism
Bolts on Everest A team of Mountain Guides and Sherpa have placed some bolts on Everest to make the South Face route safer.
![Puurs Lead World Cup: victory for Vidmar and Puigblanque](/uploads/img/3/2356.jpg)
30/09/2008 - Competitions
Puurs Lead World Cup: victory for Vidmar and Puigblanque The fifth stage of the Lead World Cup took place in Puurs, Belgium last weekend and was won by Maja Vidmar and Ramón Julian Puigblanque. The two beat Mina Markovic and Johanna Ernst and Tomasz Mrazek and Jorg Verhoeven, second...
![Renzino Cosson, Mont Blanc du Tacul and the law of nature and the mountains](/uploads/img/3/2212.jpg)
27/08/2008 - Alpinism
Renzino Cosson, Mont Blanc du Tacul and the law of nature and the mountains Interview with Renzino Cosson, mountaineer, mountain guide and Mont Blanc expert after the accident on Mont Blanc du Tacul which cost the lives of 8 mountaineers on Sunday 24 August. An occasion and analysis of the “rules” of nature and...
![Beka Brakai Chhok summit by Moro and Barmasse](/uploads/img/3/2138.jpg)
11/08/2008 - Alpinism
Beka Brakai Chhok summit by Moro and Barmasse On 1 August 2008 Italian mountaineers Simone Moro and Hervè Barmasse reached the hitherto unclimbed summit of Beka Brakai Chhok (6940m) in Pakistan's Karakorum.
![Equilibrium, Harald Berger – A Photo Collection](/uploads/img/3/1255.jpg)
05/12/2007 - Book-press
Equilibrium, Harald Berger – A Photo Collection Hermann Erber and Kirsten Buchmann pay homage to Harald Berger with their picture book "Equilibrium". All proceeds will go to the Salzburg Mountain Guides Association which administers a fund to deal with similar emergency situations.
![Harald Berger](/uploads/img/3/164.jpg)
21/12/2006 - Alpinism
Harald Berger At 14.15 on 20 December Harald Berger, the three times Ice Climbing World Champion, winner of numerous competitions and extremely talented rock climber, died beneath an immense quantity of ice which collapsed while he was climbing on the overhanging Eiskapelle...
![Eiger east face poised to collapse](/uploads/img/3/.jpg)
12/07/2006 - Environment
Eiger east face poised to collapse Two million cubic meters of the Eiger's East Face are poised to crash down into the valley hundreds of meters below due to a 300m horizontal fissure.
![Lama and Eiter win second stage of Lead World Cup in Dresden](/uploads/img/3/48.jpg)
24/05/2006 - Competitions
Lama and Eiter win second stage of Lead World Cup in Dresden on 20/05/06 David Lama and Angela Eiter from Austria won the second stage of Lead World Cup in Dresden. The final was called off due to storms.
![San Lorenzo new route](/uploads/img/3/23.jpg)
31/03/2006 - Alpinism
San Lorenzo new route On 28 March Hervé Barmasse, Matteo Bernasconi, Lorenzo Lanfranchi and Giovanni Ongaro climbed a new mixed line up the grandiose and previously untouched North Face of San Lorenzo, Patagonia.
![Dru West Face rockfall](/uploads/img/3/.jpg)
08/07/2005 - Alpinism
Dru West Face rockfall On 29 June the West Face of Mont Blanc's Petit Dru suffered a new and important rockfall. The collapse occured above the previous 1997 rockfall.
![Croda di Pomagagnon collapse in the Dolomites](/uploads/img/3/.jpg)
29/06/2005 - Climbing
Croda di Pomagagnon collapse in the Dolomites A large quantity of rock has broken free from the central wall of Monte Pomagagnon, creating an enormous cloud of dust.
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