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Marco Balda introduces the climbing in Val Pennavaire (Liguria), also known as Albenga. With 1,300 routes and 41 crags, this is one of the most popular climbing areas in Italy.

Video tutorial that explores some common belaying mistakes.

At Chironico in Switzerland Gabriele Moroni has sent his first 8C boulder problem, Insanity of Grandeur first climbed last year by Dai Koyamada.

The video of Ben Bransby making the first repeat of The Parthian Shot at Burbage South, England, after the crucial flake was damaged in 2011.

Video interview with Alex Honnold and Pete Croft who talk about their climbing and their solo ascents without a rope.

Rosario Cammara and Fabio Failla have made the first ascent of Tutto in una notte di luna piena (7a, 110m), a new rock climb on the Torri di Canolo, Aspromonte, Calabria, southern Italy.

The video of American climber Paige Claassen and her Japanese stage of the Lead Now Tour.

The video of Stella Marchisio sending the boulder problem Tasso Killer 7C (V9) at Varazze, Italy.

The video of Austria's Jörg Guntram bouldering on the island of Tenerife, Canaries.

Luca Zardini's report of his 25 November redpoint of Histerija 8c+ at Misja Pec, Slovenia.

In October Olivier Dutel and Nicolas Potard made the first ascent of La Fiesta de los Metallos, Gorges du Verdon, France.

On 19/11/2013 Ben Bransby became the first person to climb The Parthian Shot at Burbage South, UK, since the crucial flake broke off in 2011.

Belgian rock climber Muriel Sarkany has climbed her first 9a, Punt-X at the Gorges du Loup in France.

Fisioterapia d'urto (350m, 7c+/8a max, obligatory 7b) the new route put up by Rolando Larcher, Luca Giupponi and Nicola Sartori on the North Face of Cima Dagnola (2195m, Brenta Dolomites) and freed in August by Larcher, Giupponi and Herman Zanetti. The report by Luca Giupponi.

The Yosemite timelapse taken by photographer Shawn Reeder.

The report by Niccolò Ceria after his climbing trip to Macedonia to discover the bouldering around Prilep.