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The film and the first free ascent Sulla via del Det up Sasso Cavallo (lecco, Italy) will be screened at Valmadrera, with special guests Giuseppe Alippi Det, Benigno Balatti and the Ragni Luca Passini and Matteo Piccardi.

In the Bavella mountain range in Corsica Matteo della Bordella and David Bacci have made the first ascent of Sintomi strani and have repeated De Rerum Natura, established by Rolando Larcher and Maurizio Oviglia.

Italian alpinist Mario Conti shares his views about the recent bolt chopping of the Compressor route on the SE Face of Cerro Torre.

Natalija Gros has officially retired from climbing competitions. During her career the Slovenian climber stepped onto the World Cup podium 23 times and one of the highlights includes winning the European Bouldering and Combined Championship in Paris in 2008.

Stefano Bianchi has carried out a rare repeat of the route Achtung Baby Plus 8b+ at the crag Gajum, Italy.

Once again Climb For Life raises awareness amongst climbers about the need for bone marrow transplant. The initiative by Pietro Dal Prà e Giovanni Spitale includes Climb for life T-shirts at indoor climbing walls.

This summer Paolo Spreafico, Domenico "Dodo" Soldarini and Lorenzo Martinelli established and freed Velocità limitata (230m, 8a, 7b+ oblig) up the Sulzfluh (2817m) in Switzerland's Rätikon.

After having freed two projects at Bus de Vela close to Trento, Gabriele Moroni has now made the first repeat of Masoniamoci 8c+/9a, the route freed by Adam Ondra at Masone above lecco, Italy.

Matteo Bernasconi and Davide Spini have established Cose Turche (300m 7a obligatory/8b?) up Kazilin Basi (2944m) in the Ala Daglar, Turkey.

On 13 and 14 ocotber 2011 Marco Anghileri carried out the first solo ascent of "L'Ultimo Zar" (500m, 7+ A3). This is the 5th solo climb this season, all carried out in the lecco Grigna area.

During a brief trip to Italy the Japanese climber Yuji Hirayama visited the crags Discoteca, Cadarese, Valle dell'Orco and Balmanolesca in search of Italian trad.

On 03/09/2011 Matteo Della Bordella and Fabio Palma made the first one-day ascent of their "Infinite Jest" (640m 8a+/8b max, 7b obl.), the new route forged by the Ragni di lecco members up the Mahren rock face in Wenden, Switzerland.

A new story written by Emilio Previtali to present his latest project: the The North Face STORY.teller yearbook, a book distributed by The North Face which recounts the stories, thoughts and adventures of his fellow Team TNF members.

On Saturday 19 September 2011 at Villa Gomez (lecco, Italy) the world of alpinism paid its final respect to Walter Bonatti. The video by Andrea Giorda

Nicolas Potard adds Le tresor de Romain, a new route combination up the Grand Capucin, Mont Blanc.

Last night Walter Bonatti passed away. He was 81 years old and one of the greatest legends of alpinism of all times.