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Interview with Matteo De Zaiacomo on preparing for the iconic Melloblocco bouldering festival with Andrea Pavan and the entire route-setting team. The meeting is scheduled to take place in Val di Mello - Val Masino from 7 - 10 May...

Interview with Pietro Bassotto, the 61-year-old Italian climber who recently made the first ascent of 'Mata Leao' (8c+) at the La Terrazza crag in Novalesa, Val di Susa, Italy.

Belgium's Simon Lorenzi has successfully repeated 'Return of the Sleepwalker' in Red Rocks, USA. This marks the 28-year-old climber's fourth 9A boulder problem.

Japanese climber Dai Koyamada has established 'Monolith' in the Hinokage Valley, Japan. The boulder has been graded 8C/+ and was described by the 48-year-old as 'one of the best problems of my life.

Austrian climber Nicolai Užnik has made the first ascent of ‘Mount Doom’, a 9A boulder boulder problem in Maltatal, Austria.

Interview with Swedish climber Hannes Puman after his free ascent of 'The Nose' on El Capitan in Yosemite via what is known as the Schnaz Variation.

British rock climber Shauna Coxsey has made the third ascent of 'Mito Sit' (8B+) in Sintra, Portugal.

Czech climber Adam Ondra has repeated 'Soudain Seul' in Fontainebleau, France. The problem was originally established by Simon Lorenzi in 2021 and graded 9A, and is Ondra's hardest to date.

Belgian climber Sébastien Berthe has made the fourth free ascent of the Dawn Wall on El Capitan in Yosemite, USA. First climbed by Tommy Caldwell and Kevin Jorgeson in 2015, it was repeated by Adam Ondra in 2016 and is...

Registrations are now open for Melloblocco 2025, the biggest bouldering and climbing meeting in the world which this year is scheduled to take place in Val di Mello - Val Masino from May 7th to 10th.

On 03/02/2025 Scottish climber William Bosi made the second ascent of Stefano Ghisolfi's 'Excalibur' (9b+) in Arco, Italy.

Czech climber Adam Ondra has flashed the 8B+ boulder problem 'El Elegido' at La Pedriza, Spain, describing the feat as 'possibly the bouldering flash ascent that I value the most.'

From 7 - 10 May 2025, Val di Mello - Val Masino in Northern Italy will once again host the Melloblocco, the largest bouldering meeting in the world.

At Tintorale in Abruzzo, Italy, Elias Iagnemma has made the first ascent of the 9A boulder problem 'The Big Slamm'.

Watch American climber Michaela Kiersch bouldering in Rocklands in summer 2024, where she sent a long list of hard climbs including Amandla 8B+ despite a fractured finger.

Francesco Favilli and Filippo Zanin, two expert Italian mountaineers, died while climbing the south face of the Marmolada, Dolomites.