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09/06/2017 - Climbing
El Capitan: Peter Zabrok and Sean Warren make long-awaited first repeat of Adrift in Yosemite American rock climber Peter Zabrok and Britain's Sean Warren have made the long-awaited first repeat of Adrift, the difficult big wall aid climb up the SE Face of El Capitan first ascended in early 1994 by Steve Quinlan and Paul Pritchard.

07/06/2017 - Climbing
Jorg Verhoeven and the life saving climbing helmet The video of Dutch rock climber Jorg Verhoeven as he falls headfirst off a trad climb in Colorado, USA and is saved by his climbing helmet.

06/06/2017 - Climbing
Alex Honnold: first video of Freerider free solo up El Capitan The first video of Alex Honnold’s free solo ascent of Freerider on El Capitan, Yosemite, carried out by the American climbs on 3 June 2017.

06/06/2017 - Climbing
Steve McClure frees Rainman at Malham Cove, Britain's first 9b At Malham Cove in England Steve McClure has freed Rainman, the first sports climb in Great Britain graded 9b.

06/06/2017 - Climbing
Alex Honnold, the free solo beyond the norm Rock climbing beyond the limits: thoughts about the scope of Alex Honnold's recent free solo ascent of Freerider on El Capitan (Yosemite).

05/06/2017 - Alpinism
Ralf Dujmovits, dream vanishes of climbing Everest without supplementary oxygen At the end of May the German mountaineer Ralf Dujmovits was forced to abandon his attempt of climbing Everest without supplementary oxygen due to the strong winds and snowfall at 8,580 meters. In 2009, Dujmovits completed all fourteen 8000ers without O2, except for the highest mountain in the world.

04/06/2017 - Climbing
Alex Honnold free solo climbs El Capitan, Yosemite American rock climber Alex Honnold has made a free solo ascent of Freerider on El Capitan, Yosemite. In doing so he has become the first person to climb El Capitan without ropes.

02/06/2017 - Competitions
Italian climbing team: European Championship dreams at Campitello di Fassa While the Val di Fassa Climbing club continues preparing for the IFSC European Climbing Championship (Lead and Speed) at the end of June, the Italian Climbing Team coached by Luca Giupponi has just spent four days training on the ADEL climbing wall.

01/06/2017 - Alpinism
Ricordi nebbiosi, big new rock climb up Cima della Busazza, Civetta, Dolomites From 2 to 3 August 2016 Giorgio Travaglia, Martin Dejori, Titus Prinoth and Alex Walpoth made the first ascent of Ricordi nebbiosi (IX-A1), an almost 1200m high route up the NW Face of Cima della Busazza (Civetta, Dolomites).

31/05/2017 - Interviews
Christoph Hainz, climbing and mountaineering from the Dolomites to the world's biggest walls Interview with South Tyrolean mountain guide Christoph Hainz, one of the world's most talented alpinists and climbers.

30/05/2017 - Alpinism
Aiguille du Midi new mixed climb by Jeff Mercier & Co French alpinists Jeff Mercier, David Autheman, Lucien Boucansaud and Gérémy Rakowski have completed Red Devils, a new route up the NW Face of Aiguille du Midi, Mont Blanc massif, France.

29/05/2017 - Alpinism
Kilian Jornet summits Everest twice in a week After having summited Everest on 22 May 2017, on 27 May Spain’s Kilian Jornet Burgada reached the summit of the world’s highest mountain for the second time in one week. Jornet Burgada climbed without supplementary oxygen and in 17 hours from Advanced Base Camp.

29/05/2017 - Events
Christoph Hainz, Tre Cime di Lavaredo man: the evening at Arco On Friday 2 June 2017 at 21:00 at Caffé Trentino in Arco an evening talk with Christoph Hainz, for the last two decades one of the leading climbers and mountaineers, not only in the Dolomites. The evening will be hosted by Vinicio Stefanello, editor of PlanetMountain.com

28/05/2017 - Competitions
Campitello di Fassa, Austrian Climbing team trains in Val di Fassa The video of the Austrian Climbing team that trained at Campitello in Val di Fassa, Italy, prior to European Climbing Championship scheduled to take place from 29 June to 1 July 2017.

26/05/2017 - Climbing
Climbing at Salto del Perro, Gran Canaria The sport climbing crag Salto del Perro on Gran Canaria, Spain. Presented by Vertical-Life.info as part of our series 'Crags for each season', for which the routes and topos can be downloaded free of charge for a fortnight.

26/05/2017 - Snow Ski-skimountaineering
Grand Combin de Valsorey South Face The video by Yannick Boissenot and Davide Capozzi of their recent ski and snowboard descent of the South Face of Grand Combin de Valsorey in Switzerland.
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