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Interview with American climber Chris Sharma after his first ascent of El Bon Combat 9b/+ at Cova de Ocell in Spain

Belgian climber Nicolas Favresse exalts the beauty of climbing at night.

At the drytooling crag bus del Quai di Iseo Lucie Hrozova has made the second repeat of Low G Man, the hardest total dry climb in Italy.

On 9/02/2015 Marek Raganowicz and Marcin Tomaszewski reached the summit of Trollveggen (Troll Wall) in Norway after having made the first ascent of Katharsis (1100m, A4/M7) up the inhospitable North Face.

32 years after Renato Casarotto's ascent of Frêney trilogy, also known as the Super Integral di Peutèrey (Mont Blanc), Ivo Ferrari remembers the great Italian alpinist.

Interview with Marco Zamberlan after his ascent of Ama Dablam (6856m) in Nepal, carried out to celebrate the 85th anniversary of the Italian shoe maker.

From 21 to 25 January 2015, Turkey’s first-ever international ice climbing festival took place at Erzurum (Anatolia). Participants included Anna Torretta (a Mountain guide from Courmayeur) and Spain’s Cecilia Buil who made the first ascents of two beautiful icefalls: Anatolia...

Winter update by Maurizio Oviglia about the latest climbing news from the island that just keeps on giving: three new climbs in Sardina.

Pre-registration is now online for Melloblocco 2015, the biggest bouldering and climbing meeting in the world that will be held in Val di Mello - Val Masino, Italy, from 30 April to 3 May 2015.

Having recovered from a 2014 injury, the boulderer Niccolò Ceria has now repeated Ninja Skills 8B+ at Sobrio and Big Kat 8B+ at Chironico, both in Switzerland’s Ticino and the latter is perhaps his hardest problem so far.

On December 28, 2014 at the drytooling crag bus del Quai, Iseo, French climber Jeff Mercier made the first ascent of Low G Man, a combination of three existing drytooling routes. Graded D14 this is now the hardest total dry...

The winter climbing season in Scotland has begun with three noteworthy ascent: the first winter ascent of Boggle of Beinn Eighe by Martin Moran and Robin Thomas and the first repeats of Tomahawk Crack on Ben Nevis (Will Sim and...

Any old mountain, any old valley above Cuneo and the first ski mountaineering trip of the season. By Mattia Salvi.

The Rolwaling valley in Nepal, Yalung Ri (5630m) and an expedition with family and friends to enjoy an adventure, a journey, nature and friendship. By Maurizio Oviglia

The video of Angelika Rainer on the "total dry" climb Kamasutra D13+ at bus del Quai, Iseo, Italy.

Interview with Italian climber Gabriele Moronim from his first competitions to when he won bronze in the 2004 European Bouldering Championship in 2004, via his bouldering and sport climbing which recently netted him the redpoint of Goldrake 9a+ at Cornalba,...