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In April British rock climber Franco Cookson made the first ascent of Immortal at Maiden's Bluff, Yorkshire, UK. Graded E11 7b, it currently stands as one of the most difficult and dangerous in the country.

On 17 August 2020 Pete Whittaker made a free solo of the 800m Renshaw/Foulkes route on Kjerag in Norway. The climb features in this year’s Brit Rock film Tour and the British rock climber has now released footage explaining how the...

The video portrait of Catalan mountaineer Silvia Vidal who was awarded a Special Mention at the Piolets d'Or 2021 for her outstanding contribution to solo big wall climbing over the last two decades.

An excerpt from the award-winning film 'Valley Uprising' that documents one of the most legendary moments in Yosemite climbing history: the 1977 drug plane crash.

During a climbing trip to the UK, Belgium’s Siebe Vanhee repeated a flurry of hard gritstone trad climbs including Parthian Shot E9, End of the Affair E8 and Gaia E8.

US photographer Will Saunders has been crowned overall winner of the Red Bull Illume Image Quest 2021 with his photograph of a climber falling at Indian Creek, USA. Italian photographer Thomas Monsorno won the Innovation by EyeEm category with his...

The first ascent video of What We Do In The Shadows, the new trad climb put up by Robbie Phillips at Duntelchaig in Scotland graded E10 7a.

Japanese mountaineer Yasushi Yamanoi is to receive the13th Piolets d'Or Carrière Lifetime Achievement Award. The prize giving ceremony will be celebrated in Briançon, France, from 26 to 29 November.

The video and the report of the La Sportiva Athletes Climbing Meeting which was took place from 11-13 October 2021 in Valle dell’Orco, Italy.

The trailer to 14 Peaks: Nothing Is Impossible, the film that documents the attempts of Nepalese mountaineer Nirmal Purja to climb all 14 of the world’s 8,000-meter peaks in seven months.

The movie The Ultimate Run featuring freestyle skier Markus Eder from the South Tyrol, Italy.

The episodes of Great Wide Open directed by Jared Leto continue with American rock climber Alex Honnold.

The first episode of the Great Wide Open directed by Jared Leto explores the life of American climber and mountaineer Tommy Caldwell.

The film Link Sar directed by Graham Zimmerman, which documents the first ascent of the 7041m peak in Pakistan’s Karakorum, first ascended in 2019 by Zimmerman with Mark Richey, Steve Swenson and Chris Wright.

The trailer of the first ascent of Soudain Seul, the hardest boulder problem at Fontainebleau in France carried out by Simon Lorenzi in February 2021.

On 15 August 2021 Dani Arnold made a solo ascent of the North Face of the Petit Dru (3733m) in the Mont Blanc massif, climbing the historic Allain-Leininger route (900m TD+) in just 1 hour, 43 minutes.