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The report by Marco Spataro about the IV Tor des Geants 2013, the race along the paths at the foot of Mont Blanc and the great Valle d'Aosta peaks (330km and 24.000 elevation gain), won by Iker Karrera and Francesca...

The video in memory of Tito Traversa and a short text by Andrea Tosi. 'For Tito, forever in our hearts' was first screened at the Arco Rock Junior and then just before the Rock Master Lead final.

Eraldo Meraldi introduces Argento Argentario (110m, 6a), his new route at Capo d'Uomo, Argentario, Tuscany, Italy

The great enchainment carried out by Italian alpinist Marco Anghileri on 25 June 2013. 5 routes first climbed by Walter Bonatti: on Bastionata del Resegone, Medale, Torre Costanza, Ago Teresita, Magnaghi. All repeated in a single day. Anghileri travelled by...

On Saturday 8 June the fifth edition of the Salewa Rockshow 2013 Calling stage came to an end at the Topo Pazzo Climbing House in Verres. The numbers speak for themselves: 130 participants, 200 people at the party. A great...

Sunday 28/04/2013. Climbing in all its forms hallmarked day 3 of Melloblocco, the world's largest international climbing and bouldering meeting in Val di Mello – Val Masino. Despite the rain people climbed and took part in a thousand different ways...

Mountain Guide Eraldo Meraldi introduces the ski mountaineering trip to the lonesome summit of Monte Rinalpi (3012m), Alta Valtellina, Rhaetian Alps.

On Pizzo Dosdè 3280m in the Cima di Piazzi massif (Rhaetian Alps) Giuliano Bordoni, Marco Cattaneo and Bruno Mottini have made the first ski descent of a line they called freedom and Love down the East Face (50°, 800m). Mountain...

On 14/01/2013 Austrian alpinist Markus Pucher soloed the Via dei Ragni on Cerro Torre in  Patagonia in a lightening fast time of 3 hours 15 minutes from his bivouac below the Colle della Speranza... Pucher's story and our interview.

Part 2 - from July to December - of what happened in alpinism and climbing in 2012.

On 10 December 2012 the bolts were removed from the sports climb Eterno Riposo, Eternal Rest, at Ceredo in Italy. On his blog Andrea Tosi, the man who first bolted the climb and now removed the bolts, explains his actions.

While the grief continues regarding the death Patrick Edlinger, we have published a portrait of this climbing legend that was first published in 2005 in the book Rock Master.

Interview by Ellade Ossola with Samuel Anthamatten, the Swiss freerider and alpinist, on the eve of the Evolution Vertical event organized by New Rock and scheduled to take place in Lugano, Switzerland on Friday 9 November.

The 1st International Master Course in Mountain Medicine will be completed with the final thesis and diploma at the Insubria University. This project, unique and innovative, came to life as a real challenge and involved 14 doctors from all of...

Alberto Magliano, one of the climbers who died in the terrible avalanche on Manaslu, in the words of climbing partner Michele Comi.

On 17/06/2012 Luka Lindic and Andrej Grmovšek completed the first ascent of Rajceva (8a, 250m) up the North Face of Križevnik in Slovenia.