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Leo Houlding provides the details of The Prophet, his October 2010 new route on el capitan, Yosemite, USA.

Pete Croft and Lisa Rands climb The Venturi Effect up the The Incredible Hulk, established by Croft and Dave Nettle in 2004.

Due to a freak winter storm Tommy Caldwell and Kevin Jorgeson have abandoned the Mescalito project, also known as the Dawn Wall project, on el capitan in Yosemite.

Tommy Caldwell and Kevin Jorgeson are currently attempting to free their Mescalito Dawn Wall project on el capitan in Yosemite.

In autumn 2010 Simon and Samuel Anthamatten from Switzerland blitzed the West Face, Lurking Fear, Zodiac, Tangerine Trip, Lost in America, North American Wall, Mescalito, The Nose, Salathé and the Linkup Half Dome - The Nose in Yosemite Valley, USA

Sean Leary and Dean Potter have set a new Speed record on The Nose, el capitan, climbing the route in 2:36:45

Interview with British climber after the first ascent of The Prophet on el capitan, Yosemite, USA, carried out in 6 days in October 2010 with Jason Pickles and graded E9 7a, 5.13d R, 8b, 510m.

British climber Leo Houlding has freed The Prophet, another free route on el capitan, Yosemite.

We last reported from Tommy Caldwell and Kevin Jorgeson in March when they were working on the immensely difficult Mescalito Dawn Wall project on el capitan in Yosemite. The summer set in before the two managed to free all the pitches of this massive big wall and now, with cooler...

Tom Evans reports of massive rockfall on el capitan, Yosemite, USA.

Alex Honnold and Sean Leary have climbed three routes on el capitan in Yosemite, The Nose, Salathé Wall and Lurking Fear in 24 hours.

American climbers Tommy Caldwell and Kevin Jorgeson report directly from el capitan in Yosemite with updates about their progress on what has become known as the immensely difficult Mescalito Dawn Wall project.

Dorota Dubicka takes a look at the event which took place in Poland at the strat of December and attracted over 5000 visitors.

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...

Interview with Japanese climber Yuji Hirayama, who on 15/09/2009 made the sixth ascent of Cobra Crack at Squamish, Canada.

Climbing legend John Bachar, 52, died while soloing on Dike Wall, Mammoth Lakes, California.