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Between February and May 2014, Italian skiers Francesco Vascellari, Davide D'Alpaos and Loris De Barba carried out a series of first ski descents to solve some old problems in the Dolomites. They concluded their run with a repeat of the East Face of the Matterhorn, first skied by Tone Valeruz...

The video tutorial by Christian Core of Dr. Kelios Bonetti explaining the five most common mistakes while training with a Campus Board that force climbers to stop training.

The report by Angelika Rainer about the Ouray Ice Festival, the ice climbing meeting andthe competition that took place from 8 - 11 January, won by Italian ice climber and Canada’s Will Gadd

On 14 January 2015, after 19 days on the wall and years of efforts, American climbers Tommy Caldwell and Kevin Jorgeson completed the historic first free ascent of Dawn Wall on El Capitan, Yosemite, USA. Almost 1000m high and with two pitches graded 5.14d (9a), this is probably the hardest...

In December 2014 the Slovakian rock climbers Jozef Kristoffy and Martin Krasnansky made the first ascent of Fatal Attraction (8a+, 450m) at Jebel Rum, a contender for the hardest multi-pitch climb in Jordan.

Last Saturday, at Puy Saint Vincent in France, the Individual race of the first leg of the Scarpa ISMF Ski Mountaineering World Cup 2015 was won by Anton Palzer and Laetitia Roux. On Sunday Roux the Sprint race was won by Roux and Robert Antonioli, while today Roux won the...

Having recovered from a 2014 injury, the boulderer Niccolò Ceria has now repeated Ninja Skills 8B+ at Sobrio and Big Kat 8B+ at Chironico, both in Switzerland’s Ticino and the latter is perhaps his hardest problem so far.

From 15 - 18 January 2015 Argentière - La Bessée (France) will host Ice Climbing Ecrins, the classic international ice climbing meeting that celebrates its XXV edition.

At the Italian crag Nasolino (Valle Seriana) young Luca Bana celebrated his 17th birthday by climbing his first 8a.

On 25/12/2014 Enrico Bonino and Tiziana Parru made the first ascent of Exo-Ciuc! (70m, WI5/II) a new icefall at Valgrisenche (Valle d'Aosta, Saxe Savoie). The report by Enrico Bonino

Italian climber Sara Grippo shares her life experience in this short film This isn't a dream.

The winter climbing season in Scotland has begun with three noteworthy ascent: the first winter ascent of Boggle of Beinn Eighe by Martin Moran and Robin Thomas and the first repeats of Tomahawk Crack on Ben Nevis (Will Sim and Andy Inglis) and Culloden on Creag an Dubh Loch (Guy...

A short report about yesterday's climbs at Cornalba, the historic sports crag above Bergamo, Italy, which saw both Daniele Calegari and Tiziano Asperti repeat Feedback.

Claudio Migliorini talks about the first ascent of two mixed climbs on Monte Nero di Presanella (Adamello - Presanella massif, Italy) carried out in 2013, Rolling Stones and Una via per te fatta in tre, as well as the first repeat of Wind of Change.

Quick update from Patagonia with two ascents carried out by Corrado Korra Pesce, Pierre Labbre and Damien Tomasi on Aguja Poincenot and Fitz Roy.

Currently there are numerous Italian teams climbing in Patagonia, in particular in the Chalten massif, where Cerro Torre was climbed via the Ragni route by Marcello Cominetti, Massimo Lucco, Francesco Salvaterra, Majori Marco, Marco Farina and François Cazzanelli. The route's first ascent this season was made in September by Ermanno...