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American climbers Mason Earle and Brad Gobright have made the first free ascent of The Heart Route, the big wall on El Capitan, Yosemite, first climbed by Chuck Kroger and Scott Davis in 1970.

The short film documenting the first ascent of “New Dog, Old Tricks, a big wall climbed in May 2014 by Mike Libecki and Jonas Haag.

From 12 - 14 June 2015 the 4th Arcteryx Alpine Academy took place at Chamonix. 340 participants from 25 countries took part in the event aimed at teaching mountain safety and improving mountain skills on Mont Blanc.

Preparations are in full swing a unique adventure race: watch Aaron Durogati, the only Italian taking part in Red Bull X-Alps 2015, the world’s most spectacular flight competition across the Alps.

At Kay Nest in Yorkshire, England, Franco Cookson made the first ascent of Divine Moments of Truth. The British climber has graded the climb H10, making it one of the most difficult trad climbs in the country.

Aerial footage of the Argentière glacier taken last week by Yannick Boissenot.

A short video of British alpinists Jon Griffith and Will Sim making the the first ascent of Bad to the Bone up the NW Face of Mt Deborah in Alaska.

In April 2015 the Iranian climbers Hassan Gerami, Hamid Reza Shafaghi and Farshad Mijoji made the first ascent of The Change Experience (8b, A2 442m), a new multi-pitch rock climb up the Karambony tower (Ecole) located in the Tsaranoro massif,...

The video of American rock climber Chris Sharma climbing a giant redwood tree in the Humboldt Redwoods State Park, California, USA.

On 5 June 2015 German climbers Xaver Mayr and Andi Hammerstingl made the first free ascent of 4 Gewinnt, their new route up the South Face of Pantherkopf in the Wetterstein massif, Austria.

Footage of Ben Moon’s redpoint of Rainshadow 9a at Malham Cove.

The video of the ascent of Piz Bernina, the first of 82 summits above 4000m in the Alps that Ueli Steck and Michael Wohlleben hope to climb in 80 days.

German climber Roland Hemetzberger reports about his first repeat of Fugu, the 9a sports climb freed by Adam Ondra at the Schleierwasserfall, Austria.

On 6 June 2015 the second leg of the Bouldering World Cup was won in Vail, USA, by Megan Mascarenas and Jan Hojer.

With their ascent of Piz Bernina, Swiss alpinist Ueli Steck and his German counterpart Michael Wohlleben have started their project to climb all 82 4000m summits in the Alps in 80 days.

#Evolve, the short film that documents the evolution of Italian rock climber Jacopo Larcher, as a climber and also as a person.