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Download free of charge today’s crag in the climbing advent calendar by Vertical Life and planetmountain.com: Calisio (Trento, Italy), 18 sport climbs from 5c to 7b+.

The journey of American rock climber Alex Honnold to Angola, to discover the country’s potential for rock climbing and also to follow up the Honnold Foundation pilot program of home solar systems for the local population. His travel companion Stacy...

Andrea Polo, Gabriele Gorobey and Carlo Giuliberti retrace this September’s first free ascent of Never the Same up Tsaranoro Atsimo in Madagascar. The three were accompanied by Marco Sterni who, in 1998, had made the first ascent of this multi-pitch...

The video by Achille Mauri featuring the last 5 months of Simone Tentori, during which th e young Italian climber managed to send the 8B boulder problem Riverbed at Magic Wood in Switzerland...

The Canadian alpinists Will Gadd and Sarah Hueniken have repeated The Mustang P-51 (M14-) at The Fang Amphitheater, Vail, Colorado, USA.

At the Bürser Platte in Voralberg, Austria, Jacopo Larcher has repeated Psychogramm, the trad climb graded 8b+.

The first stage of the Ice Climbing World Cup 2016 was won last weekend in Bozeman, USA, by the Russians Maxim Tomilov and Maria Tolokonina who took gold in both the Lead and Speed disciplines.

The trip report of the Slovenian climbing expedition to Patagonia, during which the alpinists Dejan Koren, Boštjan Mikuz, Rok Kurinčič, Domen Petrovcic and Domen Kastelic established three new routes: Exit, Direct Route and No Fiesta (ED+, 1600m), the latter established...

Interview with talented Italian climber Annalisa De Marco who, on only her third attempt, sent Disney Production, an 8A+ boulder problem at Brione, Canton Ticino, Switzerland.

Download free of charge today’s crag in the climbing advent calendar by Vertical Life and planetmountain.com: Spiaggia dell’Arenauta, Sperlonga with 88 sport climbs from 4a to 9a.

The short film dedicated to Armin Holzer, the champion slackline and highline athlete who died in paragliding accident on Monte Piana (2324m, Sesto Dolomites) on 4 December 2015.

The film "Mont Blanc: the land of toys" by Luca Rolli, starring the skiers, snowboarders and alpinists Davide Capozzi, Andreas Fransson, Francesco Civra Dano, Giulia Monego and Julien Herry.

American rock climber Chris Sharma tests his skills on Magie blanche, a sport climb at Mouriès in France bolted by Marc Le Ménestrel and freed by Didier Raboutou back in 1989. At the time, this slab was hailed as one...

Italian rock climber Gabriele Moroni has made the first ascent of Maestri di Vita, Life Masters, a difficult and dangerous trad climb at Metanodotto in the Aosta Valley.

During the Christmas period Vertical Life and planetmountain.com give away, in the advent climbing calendar, six crags that can be downloaded free of charge onto mobile devices. Today’s crag is Poo de Cabrales in Spain.

The first stage of the Ice Climbing World Cup 2016 begins in Bozeman, USA on 11 December 2015.