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British climber Franco Cookson has made what is likely to be one of the most difficult and dangerous trad climbs in the UK with his first ascent of Nothing Lasts at Sandy Crag in Northumberland.

Interview with Nicolas Favresse after the first free ascent, carried out with fellow-Belgians Sean Villanueva O'Driscoll and Siebe Vanhee, of the big wall rock climb El Regalo de Mwono (1200m, 8a) located on the East Face of the Central Tower...

At the start of March at the total dry tooling crag Bus del Quai, Italy, Angelika Rainer repeated Low G-Man, her first route graded D14. This follows her January repeat of the mixed climb The Mustang M14- at Vail, Colorado,...

Italian ice climber Angelika Rainer has flashed "next level", a drytooling route graded D13 located at Usine in France.

The Japanese climbers Yuji Hirayama and Sachi Amma have spent three weeks climbing at Mt Kinabalu in Borneo, where they have established a flurry of new routes and where Amma made the first repeat of Tinipi 9a+.

At Margalef in Spain the Italian climber Stefano Ghisolfi has redpointed Demencia Senil 9a+.

At Entraygues in France Stefano Ghisolfi has climbed Le moustache qui fâche, his first 9a+.

On 16/02/2014 at Fontainebleau in France Guillaume Glairont Mondet has made the first ascent of the boulder problem La Toupie Carnivore 8B.

Interview with Slovenian athlete Mina Markovic who won her first Arco Rock Master title on 8 September 2013

At the sea cliff Sagres Leopoldo Faria has made the first ascent of Peixe Porco, the first 9a sport climb in Portugal.

Interview with Austrian competition athlete Johanna Ernst, certainly one of the most talented sports climbers in the world.

Interview with Swedish extreme skier Andreas Fransson after the first ski descent of the South Face of Denali, Alaska.

The charismatic Slovenian climber who became one of the world's leading mountaineers, remembered by British journalist Ed Douglas.

Tyler Landman from England has made a series of hard repeats in Fontainebleau, France, including the second ascent of Satan i Helvete assis, the FB8C.