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A pleasant little crag above Positano, on the Amalfi coast, Italy, with fifteen pitches from 6a to 8a.

Hansjörg Auer has carried out the first free ascent of Vogelfrei (8b/8b+ 400m), on the South Face of the Schüsselkarspitze, Austria.

Austrian Mountain Guide Albert Leichtfried has made the first ascent of La lingua pura (7c, 6c oblig, 200m) on the North Face of Monte Monaco close to San Vito lo Capo in Sicily, Italy, together with Paul Mair.

One of the most important bouldering areas in Europe is located close to the small village of Targassonne in the French Pyrenees. Electra Brunialti and Enea Colnago introduce these beautiful granite boulders.

Polish climber Mateusz Haladaj has repeated Erfolg ist trainierbar reclimbed 9a at the Adlitzgraeben in Austria and Los Inconformistas 9a at Rodellar, Spain.

Sonnie Trotter from Canada has made the first retro-trad ascent of Prosthetics 5.13d (r/x) at Mill Creek, Utah, USA.

Registration is now online for the Austrian winter "Snow & Avalanche Awareness Camps" aimed at off-piste skiers and and snowboarders.

Kilian Fischhuber from Austria has repeated Des Kaisers neue Kleider (250m, 8b+) on the Wilder Kaiser, Austria.

American rock climber Dean Potter has been named Adventurer of the year by National Geographic Adventure Magazine.

The charismatic Slovenian climber who became one of the world's leading mountaineers, remembered by British journalist Ed Douglas.

The Never sleeping Wall, an inspiring crag close to San Vito lo Capo in Sicily, Italy introduced by Mountain Guide Albert Leichtfried.

Young Enzo Oddo from France has repeated the 9a linkup of the boulder problem Inga with the route 7pm JP Chaud at the Gorges du Loup, France.

Michele Caminati talks about the broken hold on Dreamtime, the legendary boulder problem established by Fred Nicole in 2000 at Cresciano, Switzerland.

This morning at 05.25 European time the dead body of Slovenian alpinist Tomasz Humar was recovered from 5600m on the South Face of Langtang Lirung (7230m, Nepal) by a helicopter with a rescue team comprised of Swissmen Robert Andenmatten and Simon Anthmatten (Air Zermatt) and the Italians Oskar Piazza and...

The details of the first ascent of the 1800m high North Face of Chang Himal, Kanchenjunga Himalaya, Nepal, climbed in a five day alpine-style push by the British alpinists Nick Bullock and Andy Houseman at ED+.

Local climber and guidebook writer Ekaitz Maiz introduces Etxauri, with more than 800 routes from 4a to 9a one of the most important crags in the Basque country, Spain.