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Almost unreal winter conditions in the Slovenian Alps have resulted in a flurry of interesting ascents. Slovenian alpinist Andrej Grmovšek provides the report.

The third stage of the Ice Climbing World Cup took place in Saas Fee last weekend and was won by Markus Bendler from Austria and Stéphanie Maureau from france.

On 4 Janaury 2010 the Austrian climbers Rudolf Hauser, Alexander Holleis and Rupert Huber carried out the first integral ascen of Gamsstubenfall (800m, WI7), one of the last great icefalls in the Gasteinertal, Austria. On 12 January Hauser climbed...

On 17/01/2010 Markus Bendler from Austria and Chloe Graftiaux from Belgium won the ninth Ice Master di Daone, valid as the second stage of the Ice Climbing World Cup 2010.

British climber Stevie Haston has made a flash ascent of Greenspit in Valle del Orco, Italy

From 20 - 22 November the Italians Enrico Bonino, Nicolas Meli and Francesco Cantù carried out the first ascent of "Ramri Keti" (1100m, WI5+/M7/5a) up the North Face of Hama Jomjuma (5970m, Khumbu, Nepal).

One of the most important bouldering areas in Europe is located close to the small village of Targassonne in the French Pyrenees. Electra Brunialti and Enea Colnago introduce these beautiful granite boulders.

Polish climber Mateusz Haladaj has repeated Erfolg ist trainierbar reclimbed 9a at the Adlitzgraeben in Austria and Los Inconformistas 9a at Rodellar, Spain.

Young Enzo Oddo from france has repeated the 9a linkup of the boulder problem Inga with the route 7pm JP Chaud at the Gorges du Loup, france.

Climbing and other low-impact sports such as canoing and hiking may be at risk at the planned Calanques National Park in france. A group called "Association des Calanques et des Hommes" is asking for climbers to sign their petition online...

A selection of rock climbs in the fantastic Verdon Gorge, france, an area which witnessed the entire evolution of sport climbing.

In October Charlotte Durif from france carried out the first ascents of two 8c+, Pull Over at the Grotte de Galetas in Verdon and The Wall at Combe La Vielle.

In summer 2009 Toni Lamprecht, Uli Strunz and Benno Wagner carried out the first ascent of the multi-pitch "Le Vieux et la mer" 8b in the Verdon Gorge, france.

The first international climbing meeting at San Vito lo Capo in Sicily took place from 9 - 11 October

On 8 October French climber Alain Robert scaled the 152m high Tour Ariane, at the Defense quarter in Paris, france

In a mere two months 14 year old Enzo Oddo from france has redpointed four routes 9a or harder, three of which are located at the Gorges du Loup.