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All the nominations for the VIth Arco Rock Legends, the sport climbing Oscars scheduled to take place on Thursday 21 July 2011 at Arco (Italy) with two awards, the Salewa Rock Award and the La Sportiva Competition Award. The celebration will be held during the Arco 2011 IFSC Climbing World...

Maurizio Oviglia introduces three new crags in Southern Sardinia: Cave of dreams, Villasimius e Broadway

Leo Houlding provides the details of The Prophet, his October 2010 new route on El Capitan, Yosemite, USA.

The ascent to the western summit of Corno Grande (Gran Sasso d'Italia) via the Calderone glacier, described by Luca Mazzoleni, hut warden of Rifugio Franchetti since 1988.

Luca Loreggian introduces the beautiful Gorges du Tarn close to Millau in France. 400 routes from 5a to 8c.

On 16 April 2011 Nicola Tondini managed the second free ascent of "Testa o Croce" (185m, 8b max, 7c obligatory), the route on the Monte Cimo buttress (Val d’Adige) established together with Nicola Sartori in autumn 2009 and which Sartori had freed in April 2010.

Video of Kevin Jorgeson bouldering at the Buttermilks, including the second ascent of Transporter Room (V5 X).

Interview with Austrian climber Hansjörg Auer after the 22 April first free ascent of Hallucinogen Wall 5.13+/R in the Black Canyon, Colorado, USA.

A brief report about the Kalymnos Climbing Festival 2011 by Aris Theodoropoulos

Pete Croft and Lisa Rands climb The Venturi Effect up the The Incredible Hulk, established by Croft and Dave Nettle in 2004.

Video of Adam Ondra making the first ascent of Chaxi Raxi 9b at Oliana, Spain.

The third stage of the Bouldering World Cup was won yesterday by Anna Stöhr from Austria and Dimitry Sharafutdinov from Russia.

On 08/05/2011 the second stage of the Bouldering World Cup took place in Log-Dragomer, Slovenia and was won by Guillaume Glairon Mondet from France and Anna Stöhr from Austria.

On 9 May 2011, imediately after Melloblocco, James Pearson carried out the first repeat of "Quello che non c’è" 8c+ on Sasso Remenno in Val Masino, Italy.

Melloblocco, Val di Mello, the bouldering tribe and the biggest bouldering meeting in the world

Great success and absolute record number of participants in Val Masino - Val di Mello (Italy) during the eighth Melloblocco, the biggest climbing and bouldering meeting in the world. 2600 registered climbers from 22 different countries took part in the event, while at least 10000 people gathered in the...