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Towards the end of September 39-year-old Czech climber Petr Blaha redpointed his first 9a, Abysse at Gorges du Loup. Roman Bayon provides the short interview.

Last weekend Slovenian sports climber Janja Garnbret redpointed her first 8c+, Miza za šest at Kotecnik in Slovenia.

The sixth stage of the IFSC Lead World Cup took place in Wujiang, China, last weekend and was won by Jain Kim from Korea and Adam Ondra from the Czech Republic. The Speed Climbing World Cup came to a close and was won by Mariia Krasavina and Qixin Zhong.

A female team of Russian climbers comprised of Marina Popova, Julia Borisova, Alexandra Mentovskaya and Olesya Babushkina has made the first repeat of the Gunko route (950m, Russian 6A) on the West Face of Peak Alexander Blok (5239m) in the Ak-Su region in Pamir Alay, Kyrgyzstan.

Fabio Bristot, member of the Bellunese Dolomites Mountain Rescue Service, explains his reasoning that resulted in the construction of the Via Ferrata della Memoria, the new via ferrata which commemorates the 1910 victims of the Vajont disaster that occurred on 9 October 1963.

Last Sunday in Puurs, Belgium, South Korea’s Jain Kim and Slovenia’s Domen Škofic won the fifth stage of the Lead World Cup 2015

A difficult decision was taken yesterday at the Tor des Géants: at 8.30 am the grueling mountain running competition was cancelled due to prohibitive weather conditions.

The fourth stage of the Lead World Cup 2015 was won last weekend at Stavanger in Norway by Mina Markovic and Gautier Supper.

On Saturday 1 August at 19:30 in Imst, Austria, the finals of the third stage of the Lead World Cup 2015.

The video filmed by Yuri Palma about the Grigne massif in Northern Italy.

On Sunday night in Chamonix the European Lead Championship, and first stage of the Lead World Cup 2015, was won by Ramon Julien Puigblanque and Mina Markovic. Adam Ondra and Janja Garnbret placed second, Sebastian Halenke and Jessica Pilz third.

Chamonix, France, will host an intense weekend of sport climbing: Lead World Cup, the European Championship Lead, Speed ​​World Cup and Paraclimbing Cup.

Austrian rock climber Barbara Zangerl has repeated Bellavista, the difficult rock climb up the North Face of Cima Ovest di Lavaredo, Dolomites.

On 28 and 29 June 2015 Polish climbers Lukasz Dudek and Jacek Matuszek repeated Brento Centro (8b, 600m), the route first climbed by David Lama and Jorg Verhoeven up Monte Brento, Valle del Sarca, Italy

On Friday, May 22 at Lecco the Grignetta d'Oro 2015 was awarded to Matteo Della Bordella while Ivo Ferrari and Romano Benet received special mentions. The other alpinists in the running for the Italian mountaineering award were Hervé Barmasse, Simon Gietl, Tamara Lunger, Corrado Pesce, Francesco Salvaterra and Luca Schiera.

The full report of the European Boulder Championships that took place in Innsbruck, Austria on 14 - 16 May and was won by the Germans Jan Hojer and Juliane Wurm. While Adam Ondra and Anna Stöhr won silver, Stefan Scarperi and Katharina Saurwein won a splendid bronze medal. By Franz...