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Michele Boscacci and Laetitia Roux win the ski mountaineering World Cup 2016.Good numbers of competitors and record audience figures for the 2016 ISMF World Cups and the European Championship. Next June Albufeira, Portugal, will host the federal plenary assembly.

From 13 to 15 May 2016 Austria’s Kanzianiberg will host King of Kanzi, the 1980’s climbing festival with special guests Hans Kammerlander, Klemen Premrl, Sean Villanueva, Nicolas Favresse, Olivier Favresse and Bob Shepton.

The Italian sport climbing Federation has announced that Luca Giupponi is the new Team Manager. Yesterday Giupponi announced the athletes that will take place in the next stage of the Bouldering World Cup, scheduled to take place in Innsbruck, Austria, on 20 and 21 May 2016.

The video of Alexander Megos redpointing First Round, First Minute, the 9b climb he repeated at Margalef in Spain on 31/12/2015.

The photos taken by Claudio Piscina at the last Melloblocco,the world’s biggest bouldering and climbing meeting, which took place from 5 - 8 May 2016 in Val Masino – Val di Mello, Italy.

The 13th edition of Melloblocco, the world's biggest bouldering and climbing meeting, came to a close today in Val Masino - Val di Mello, Italy. 2800 registered climbers underline the success of the event which has no other equals in the climbing world.

Austrian rock climber Barbara Zangerl has repeated Achemine, the E9 trad climb at Dumbarton Rock established by Dave MacLeod in 2001 and famous for being Scotland’s first E9.

Third day of Melloblocco 2016: the game of climbing continues in Val Masino, marked by beauty and the Mello Karma. A staggering 2500 climbers have already registered for the biggest international bouldering competition in the world!

The spirit of Melloblocco 2016, captured in these photos by the South Korean journalist Im Duck Yong.

The report of the second day of Melloblocco 2016. 1500 boulderer have already flocked to the valley for the social Mello climbing.

Out of the ordinary mountaineering in Slovenia: Luca Vallata recalls the ascent, carried out together with Matteo Rivadossi and Andrea Tocchini, of one of the longest and most continuous ice climbs in the Eastern Alps. The icefall is not located in the mountains, but inside a mountain, namely in the...

Melloblocco #13 has started today, Thursday 5 May 5, marked by climbing, boulders and sun flooding into Val Masino. The bouldering and celebrations will continue until Sunday!

16-year-old climber Giorgio Bendazzoli has repeated L'Attimo, a 9a sports climb at Covolo (Italy).

The 47-year-old climber Yuji Hirayama from Japan has repeated Minerva at Mizugaki, a boulder problem officially graded 8B+.

The bodies of Alex Lowe, one of the strongest American mountaineers of all time, and David Bridges, have been discovered in the Himalaya 16 years after having been swept away by an avalanche while climbing Shishapangma (8027m), Tibet. Their remains were discovered by Swiss alpinist Ueli Steck and his German...

British rock climber James McHaffie has made the first ascent of House of Talons, an E9 6c on Dinas Cromlech, Llanberis Pass, Wales.