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Soline Kentzel from France and Sébastien Berthe have made a free ascent of Golden Gate on El Capitan in Yosemite, USA.

28-year-old Nolwen Berthier has climbed her first 9a+, Super Crackinette at Saint Léger du Ventoux in France.

On the 25th of March 2022 Austrian alpinist Laura Tiefenthaler completed a solo ascent of the North Face of the Eiger. Tiefenthaler's ascent is possibly only the second female solo after Catherine Destivelle's ground-breaking ascent in 1992, 30 years ago.

On 08/03/2022 Laura Tiefenthaler from Austria and Jana Möhrer from germany repeated the classic Heckmair route on the North Face of the Eiger in Switzerland. Tiefenthaler reports.

The second episode of Lines Of Legends directed by Yuri Palma features Andrea and Marco Zanone versus Stone Love, the famous 8b+ first ascended by British rock climber Jerry Moffatt in germany's Frankenjura in 1988.

The El Chalten mountain rescue has announced that there is no longer any hope of finding Corrado 'Korra' Pesce alive. The Italian mountain guide was hit by rock and ice high up on Cerro Torre along with his Argentine climbing...

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...

German rock climber Alex Megos has repeated King Capella at Siurana in Spain. The climb was first ascended by William Bosi earlier this year and originally graded 9b+.

Three women, and three climbs, which helped change the course of rock climbing: Luisa Iovane on Comeback in Val San Nicolò in 1986, Lynn Hill on The Nose in 1993 and Josune Bereziartu on Bain de Sang in 2002. Our...

On the island of Mallorca Jakob Schubert has repeated the famous deep water solo Es Pontas, put up by Chris Sharma in 2006.

The 2021 Piolets d'Or awards for alpinism will be awarded in November at Briançon, France, to Pierrick Fine and Symon Welfringer for their ascent of Sani Pakkush and Ethan Berman and Uisdean Hawthorn for their ascent of Mount Robson. Catalan...

Laura Rogora has made the first repeat of Erebor at the crag Eremo di San Paolo close to Arco. Graded 9b/+ and established by Stefano Ghisolfi in January 2021, it is considered the most difficult sport climb in Italy. This...

Last night at Moscow, Russia, during the Climbing World Championships Seo Chaehyun from South Korea and Jakob Schubert from Austria won the 2021 Lead World Championships. Natalia Grossman and Luka Potocar took home the silver medal, Laura Rogora and Hamish...

German rock climber Solveig Korherr has climbed her first 9a, La cabane au Canada at Rawyl in Switzerland.

Rock Master 2021 was won on Friday night by Czech climber Adam Ondra and, ex aequo, by Vita Lukan from Slovenia and Jessica Pilz from Austria. Mia Krampl and Stefano Ghisolfi won the Lead Duel, while Laura Rogora and Ondra...

On Thursday 19 August Swedish rock climber Matilda Söderlund repeated Parzival (8b, 150m) on Westliche Dreifaltigkeit in Switzerland.