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This morning American climbers Alex Honnold and Tommy Caldwell set another speed record on The Nose on El Capitan in yosemite. This time the duo broke the legendary 2-hour barrier, climbing the big wall route in 1:58:07.

Alex Honnold and Tommy Caldwell have broken the speed record on The Nose once again, climbing the iconic big wall on El Capitan yosemite in 2:01:50. In other news, on 2 June the two well-known rock climbers Jason Wells and Tim Klein lost their lives on El Capitan.

American climbers Tommy Caldwell and Alex Honnold have set a new speed record on The Nose, climbing El Capitan in yosemite in 2:10:15.

Austrian climber Barbara Zangerl has redpointed Speed ​​Intégrale at Voralpsee in Switzerland, her first 9a sports climb.

Interview with world-famous Swiss climber Fred Nicole in the run-up to Melloblocco 2018 that will take place from 3 to 6 May at Cresciano and Lugano. In 2000 Nicole made the first free ascent of Dreamtime, the first 8C boulder problem in the world.

From 31 May to 3 June 2018 Austria's Kanzianiberg will host King of Kanzi, the climbing festival themed '80s with special guests Barbara Zangerl, Jacopo Larcher, Vittorio Messini, Zoe Hart and Steve House.

The time-lapse documentary of the record-breaking speed ascent of The Nose up El Capitan in yosemite, climbed in 2:19:44 on 21 October 2017 by Jim Reynolds and Brad Gobright.

The video of Pete Whittaker and his rope-solo free ascent of Freerider up El Capitan in yosemite. Carried out in November 2016, with this ascent the British climber became the first person to rope solo, all free, El Cap in under 24 hours.

The trailer of the film Dawn Wall that documents the first free ascent of Dawn Wall on El Capitan in yosemite, the world’s most difficult big wall climb completed in January 2015 by Tommy Caldwell and Kevin Jorgeson.

American climber Jon Cardwell has repeated the classic 9a+ testpiece La Rambla at Siurana in Spain.

The 2002 interview / portrait of American climber and mountaineer Jim Bridwell, one of the undisputed driving forces of rock climbing in yosemite and on the world’s most inhospitable mountains, who died on 16 February 2018 at the age of 73. By Vinicio Stefanello.

Jim Bridwell has left us. Yesterday, February 16th 2018, one of the absolute legends of rock climbing and mountaineering, died aged 73.

Maurizio Oviglia introduces Astroman on the East Face of Washington Column, one of the most famous rock climbs in yosemite Valley and the world.

Barbara Zangerl and the climb Speed at the Swiss crag Voralpsee are the focus of the third episode of the La Sportiva series Strange Heroes.

Jacopo Larcher and Barbara Zangerl have made the first free repeat of Magic Mushroom, the difficult big wall climb freed by Tommy Caldwell on El Capitan in yosemite.

The video of Chris Sharma attempting an old project in yosemite with Tommy Caldwell before moving on to Bishop to claim the first repeat of Everything is Karate, a difficult new sports climb established by Ethan Pringle.