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Adam Ondra attempting to onsight the Salathé Wall up el capitan in Yosemite, USA, belayed by Nicolas Favresse in autumn 2018.

Connor Herson has made a free ascent of The Nose on el capitan in Yosemite. Climbing with his father Jim Herson over a three-day period, Connor is one of the few climbers to achieve this feat. Aged only 15, he is also the youngest person to free climb The Nose.

Climbing solo and self-belayed for five days, Japan’s Keita Kurakami has repeated The Nose on el capitan (Yosemite, USA). This is the first time that the route freed in 1993 by Lynn Hill has been climbed rope solo all free.

Czech climber Adam Ondra on the road to the Salathé Wall up el capitan in Yosemite, USA, is the theme of the fourth episode of Ondra’s fourth VBlog

Czech climber Adam Ondra has made an onsight ascent of Just Do It, the first 5.14c (8c+) in the USA located at Smith Rock, freed by French climber Jean-Baptiste Tribout in 1992.

The 360° video of Alex Honnold making his amazing free solo ascent of Freerider on el capitan (Yosemite).

Czech rock climber Adam Ondra has attempted but only just failed to onsight the Salathé Wall on el capitan in Yosemite, USA.

The short film featuring Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin as they analyse the production of Free Solo, the film that documents Alex Honnold and his climb without ropes of Freerider up el capitan, Yosemite, USA in June 2017.

Austria’s Barbara Zangerl has made a rare repeat of the 8b+ multi-pitch climb Sangre de Toro up Rote Wand, Lechquellengebirge, freed by Alex Luger in 2014.

The route topo of Mescalito up Rupe Secca on Monte Colodri in Arco, the multi-pitch rock climb first ascended in 1982 by Renato Bernard and Renzo Vettori and widely considered a masterpiece of the Sarca Valley. By Carlo Cosi, mountain guide.

The film Why not? documenting the attempt by Eleonora Delnevo to climb Zodiac on el capitan in Yosemite in 2016 with Diego Pezzoli, Angelo Angelilli and Franco Perlotto.

Complete report and photographs of the Piolets d’Or 2018, the prestigious annual mountaineering award celebrated from 20 - 23 September at Ladek Zdrój in Poland.

Eleonora Delnevo - the Italian paraclimber paralysed from the waist down after a mountaineering accident in 2015 - has climbed the Zodiac route on el capitan in Yosemite together with Mauro Gibellini, Diego Pezzoli and Antonio Pozzi.

Interview with German climber Alexander Huber 20 years after the first free ascent of Freerider, the famous big wall on el capitan in Yosemite.

Dutch climber Jorg Verhoeven talks about his ascent of the Peutérey Integral ridge on Mont Blanc, carried out with Martin Schidlowski from 13 - 15 July 2018.

On 24 August 2018 American climber Tom Frost died aged 81. Frost was one of the pioneering climbers and photographers during the Golden Age of Yosemite climbing.