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The winners of the 16th edition of the international photographic competition 'Photographing the Park' have been announced. Organised by the National Parks of Stelvio, Gran Paradiso, Abruzzo, Lazio and Molise and de la Vanoise, the competition attracted over 3000 entires,...

24-year-old British rock climber Aidan Roberts has made the first repeat of Alphane, the boulder problem at Chironico in Switzerland first ascended by Shawn Raboutou in April 2022 and graded 9A by the American.

Last summer Nadir Maguet climbed Grossglockner, Piz Bernina and ortles and in doing so set the Fastest Known Time for each mountain. The video portrait of the 28-year-old mountaineer from the Aosta Valley

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...

The first stage of the Boulder World Cup 2021 was won by Janja Garnbret and Adam Ondra last weekend in Meiringen, Switzerland.

The 5726m high pyramidal Luza Peak in the Khumbu region of the Nepal was climbed for the first time at the end of 2020 by a young trio of Sherpa comprised of Pemba Sharwa Sherpa, Urken Sherpa and Lhakpa Gyaljen...

German rock climber Alexander Huber frees Highway, a 30-year project established by Thomas Schäfer and Norbert Wich on Waidringer Steinplatte in Austria.

In Moscow earlier today Viktoriia Meshkova from Russia and Sascha Lehmann from Switzerland won the 2020 European Lead Championship.

At Céüse in France the German climber Alex Megos has made the first ascent of Bibliographie and suggested the grade 9c. This is now the most difficult sport climb in France and only the second in the world this difficult.

The video of Charles Albert making the first ascent of No kpote only at Fontainebleau in France. Freed by the French climber in January 2019, the boulder problem was repeated by Ryohei Kameyama who suggested 8C+/9A.

We are called upon to face one of the biggest tests of our time, one the must deal with the utmost difficulties. In order to do so we must use all our strength and experience. And we must do it...

The first stage of the Bouldering World Cup 2019 was won on Saturday at Meiringen in Switzerland by Janja Garnbret and Adam Ondra.

American sports climber Margo Hayes has repeated Papichulo at Oliana in Spain. This is her third 9a+ after La Rambla at Siurana and Biographie at Céüse.

Winter mountaineering in the Brenta Dolomites: Simone Banal reports about the first ascent of Tigersoft, a new winter climb up the north face of Cima Brenta established with Fabrizio Dellai and Marco Zanni.

Italian rock climber Gabriele Moroni has repeated Off the Wagon, the famous boulder problem graded 8B+ in Val Bavona, Switzerland.

On Asta Nunaat in eastern Greenland Andrea Ghitti and Fabio Olivari have made the first ascent of 'Gioielli Viventi', a new rock climb (320m, VI+/A1) established on 9 August 2018. This is likely to be only the second ascent of...