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On 16/11/2014 at San Vito Lo Capo, Italy, Stefan Rass from Austria had a terrible climbing accident and he is currently in induced coma at Salzburg. Published below is an appeal for donations for his young family as well as a short text by Elio Bonfanti who helped Rass immediately...

American climber Jimmy Webb has repeated the boulder problem Defying Gravity V15 (8C) at Thunder Ridge, Colorado, USA.

Marietta Uhden, the highly talented German climber and important world reference point for sport climbing, passed away in the night between Sunday and Monday 24 November after a long battle against cancer.

Interview with Italian climber Gabriele Moronim from his first competitions to when he won bronze in the 2004 European Bouldering Championship in 2004, via his bouldering and sport climbing which recently netted him the redpoint of Goldrake 9a+ at Cornalba, Italy.

On 11 - 12 October 2014 Domen Kastelic and Sam Hennessey made the first ascent of the West Face of Chugimago (Chukyima Go), 6259m, Nepal.

The last stage of the Lead World Cup 2014, held on 16 November at Kranj in Slovenia, was won by Adam Ondra and Mina Markovic. Austria's Jakob Schubert and South Korea's Jain Kim had already won the Lead World Cup 2014, while Sean McColl and Markovic won silver and Ondra...

The climbing of Rustam Gelmanov applied to the Indie rock of Georgiy Kotunov and Ruslan Gadzhimuradov.

This summer Adam Pustelnik and Andreas Klarström made the first ascent of The Corner kick (8a, 900m), a difficult and dangerous new variation to the climb Freya up the Storpillaren pillar on the North Face of Vågakallen, Lofoten islands, Norway.

Steve McClure and Leah Crane climbing The Mau Mau in the Dinorwig quarries above Llanberis, Wales

In just a day's bouldering at Magic Wood in Switzerland the Austrian climber Jakob Schubert sent two 8B+problems and flashed on 8B.

The video of Caroline Ciavaldini and James Pearson discovering the bouldering and trad climbing potential at Rocklands, South Africa.

The report by Marzio Nardi of Rock slave XP 2014, Elba Discovery, the climbing trip aimed at discovering the bouldering potential on Italy's Isola d'Elba.

On 28/10/2014 at Arco, Italy, Stefan Scarperi repeated Bio-logiko, his first 9a sports climb.

On 22 Ocotober 2014 Alexander Megos made the first ascent of Sonic Kaboom 9a in the Frankenjura, Germany.

Report by Carlo Cosi on three first ascents in the Cordillera Huayhuash in Peru: Laurpaq and La zuppa di Pio on the untouched NW face of Jurauraju 5330m and La Siesta del Bodacious on the SW face of Jurau.

Sport climbing: Mina Leslie-Wujastyk has made the first female ascent of Mecca Extension 8c at Raven Tor, England.