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Saturday 22 June 2024 the Olympic Qualifier Series continue in Budapest, Hungary this morning with Combined Boulder & Lead Semi-finals, and the Speed Finals. This is the last chance for the 150 athletes to qualify for the Paris 2024 Olympic...

Anna Ferrino, CEO of the Italian outdoor equipment company Ferrino, has been awarded the prestigious Compasso d'Oro Career Prize. The award ceremony was held on 20 June 2024 at the ADI Design Museum in Milan.

The second stage of the Olympic Qualifier Series continue in Budapest, Hungary, today at 10:00 CET with the Men's & Women's Lead Qualification, followed by Speed Qualification at 17:00. This is the last chance for the 150 athletes to qualify...

On 5 June 2024 the Italian-Polish mountaineer Filip Babicz made the first ascent of 'Persefone Extension', a new extreme drytooling climb in the Gran Borna cave at La Thuile in Italy. 54 meters long and graded D15, the route was...

The video documenting the circumnavigation of the Mer de Glace in the Mont Blanc massif, carried out over a period of 9 days in July 2022 by French alpinists Fred Degoulet and Benji Ribeyre.

After Shanghai, the second stage of the Olympic Qualifier Series begins in Budapest, Hungary, today at 12:00 CET. Taking place from 20 to 23 June, this is the last chance for the 150 athletes to qualify for the Paris 2024...

On Monday 17 June a team of climbers hung a banner on El Capitan in Yosemite reading 'Stop the Genocide', to raise awareness of the conflict and put pressure on Israel to end the war in Gaza.

Iker Pou, Eneko Pou and Micher Quito have completed the first ascent of 'Pisco Sour' on the SW Face of Nevado Pisco (5780m) in Peru. The 640m mixed route breaches difficulties up to 85°/M6 and was climbed in a 20-hour...

The Italian climber Pietro Vidi has sent his first 8C+ boulder problem, 'Fuck the System' at Fionnay in Switzerland.

Slovenia's Jernej Kruder has repeated 'Greenspit', the difficult trad route established by Didier Berthod in Valle dell'Orco, Italy.

Last Monday Swiss climber Katherine Choong repeated 'La Fiesta de Los Metallos', the 200m 8b located in the Verdon Gorge, France.

Austrian competition climber Andreas Hofherr has repeated 'Into the Sun' the 8c+ trad in Murgtal, Switzerland, established by Bernd Zangerl in 2017 and previously repeated only by Jacopo Larcher (2021). Hofherr reports.

The 2024 edition of the 'Piolets d’Or, the prestigious mountaineering award, will be held in San Martino di Castrozza, in Trentino, Italy, from 8 - 11 December 2024.

In August 2022 the Bulgarian climbers Emiliyan Kolevski and Victor Varoshkin made the first ascent of 'Electric Avenue' on Grand Gendarme on the Arête des Cosmiques on Aiguille du Midi, Mont Blanc, France. This is only the third route up...

With their ascent of Aletschhorn earlier today, Swiss mountaineers Christian Maurer and Peter von Känel have embarked on their project to climb all 82 peaks over 4,000m in the Alps. The pair will travel from one mountain to the next...

Vangelis Galanis has made a rope solo first ascent of a new multipitch rock climb on Kapelo Peak in Meteora, Greece. The route is dedicated to Dietrich Hasse, the German climber who pioneered rock climbing in the conglomerate area in...