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Marco Confortola has descended from Camp 1 together with George Dijmarescu, the American mountaineer who together with two high altitude porters climbed up to join him. He is expected soon in Base Camp, while details about the turn of events which marked the last 4 days on K2 begin to...

Wilco van Rooijen, Cas Van de Gevel and Pemba Sherpa have reached Base Camp, Marco Confortola is in Camp 2.

12 mountaineers including Marco Confortola have been forced to bivvy above the Bottleneck due to a serac fall which swept away the fixed ropes. They are currently attempting to descend.

On 28/07/2008 Dave Macleod made the first ascent of his project on Echo Wall, Scotland, his hardest lead to date.

On 17/07/2008 the Russians Valery Babanov and Victor Afanasiev reached the summit of Broad Peak (8047m) after having climbed a new route up the northwest face of the 12th highest mountain in the world.

24/07/2007. After 10 days on Nanga Parbat, Walter Nones and Simon Kehrer managed to descend to 5700m from where they were picked up by a helicopter and safely flown to Base Camp. The odyssey which began on 15 July with the death of their climbing partner and leader Karl Unterkircher...

A German expedition including Robert Japser and Stefan Glowacz has carried out the first ascent of "Take the long way home" (700m, 21 pitches, A4 10-) on Baffin Island, Canada.

On 21/06 Daniele Nardi and Mario Panzeri summited Nanga Parbat (8125m), the ninth highest mountain in the world.

Francesco Fazzi from Italy and Santiago Padros have ascended Free Tibet 2065 1500m/V+/80°/M5 on Ama Dablam, Nepal.

Nicolas Favresse and Sean Villanueva have just spent three weeks climbing in Wales, repeating a series of routes on Gogarth, Dinas Cromlech and Cloggy including John Redhead's masterpiece "Authentic desire" E7 6b.

The seventh edition of the Arco Rock Junior (European Youth Climbing Days) lived up to its reputation as being the greatest Youth Climbing Festival in Europe.

The third round of the Bouldering World Cup 2008 was won by Dimitry Sharafutdinov and Anna Stöhr in Grindelwald, Switzerland, last weekend.

400 climbers have already pre-registered for the seventh Rock Junior European Youth Climbing Days due to take place from 7 - 8 June 2008 at the Climbing Stadium in Arco, Italy.

At the start of May Barbara Zangerl sent Pura Vida, the boulder problem located in Switzerland's Magic Wood graded Fb8a+/8b.

At the start of May Barbara Zangerl sent Pura Vida, the boulder problem located in Switzerland's Magic Wood graded Fb8a+/8b.

From 23 to 25 May 2008 the Garda Trentino will host the Outdoordays, the open-air trade fair for everyone to test gear and participate in outdoor activities.