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The 7th stage of the Lead World Cup 2013 is about to begin at Valence in France.

Swiss alpinist Ueli Steck talks about his fast and impressive solo ascent up the South Face of Annapurna South (8091m, Nepal, Himalaya) that on 8 and 9 October 2013 enabled him to make the first ascent of the direct line attempted in 1992 by Jean-Christophe Lafaille and Pierre Beghin.

From 27 to 29 September Perm hosted the Russian stage of the World Cup Lead and Speed. The Lead event was won by Spain's Ramón Julian Puigblanque and Korea's Jain Kim, while the fastest in the Speed event were the Russians and Arseniy Shevchenko and Alina Gaidamakina.

Jakob Schubert and Jain Kim have won the third stage of the Lead World Cup 2013 at Puurs, Belgium.

On Saturday night at Stuttgart, Germany, Jernej Kruder from Slovenia and Juliane Wurm from Germany win the 2013 adidas Rockstars, beating Russia's Rustam Gelmanov and Britain's Shauna Coxsey.

Christopher Webb-Parsons, Shinta Ozawa, Mauricio Huerta, Klemen Becan and Jabee Kim all qualified today in Arco for the Rock Master Festival Men's Boulder Final on Sunday. Mathilde Becerra, Yulia Abramchuk, Annalisa De Marco and Aya Onoe are the women qualifiers.

Akiyo Noguchi, Maja Vidmar, Mathilde Becerra and Risa Ota all qualify for the Semifinal of Rock Master 2013. The male qualifiers for Saturday’s onsight are Domen Skofic, Dmitry Fakiryanov, Francesco Vettorata and Klemen Becan.

On 2 August Roger Schäli and Robert Jasper made the first free ascent of the Piola - Ghilini Direttissima (1400m, 7c) on the north face of the Eiger.

Austrian climber Anna Stöhr has sent two 8B boulder problems at Rocklands, South Africa.

Luca Pandolfi talks about his descent of Grand Couloir of Sentinelle Rouge, carried out with Ben Briggs and Tom Grant on 5 July 2013.

The first stage of the Lead Climbing World Cup is currently taking place at Briançon in France.

7 July the 51-year-old great Polish alpinists Artur Hajzer died while falling down the Japanese couloir on Gasherbrum I (8068m).

Born in 1985, Peter Gebhard will take part in his first ever Red Bull X-Alps on July 7 2013. Together with the other two Italians, Aaron Durogati and expert Andy Frötscher, the man from Val Gardena will fly and run across the Alps from Salzburg in Austria to the Principality...

Two stages of the Bouldering World Cup 2013 have just been held on North American soil; on 2 June in Toronto (Canada) the Austrians Anna Stöhr and Kilian Fischhuber climbed to victory, while on 8 June in Vail (USA) victory went to Russia's Dmitrii Sharafutdinov and Anna Stöhr once again....

The fifth stage of the Bouldering World Cup 2013 took place on 17 ? 18 May and was won by the German climbers Jan Hojer and Juliane Wurm.

A video that explores and tastes the rhythm and visions of the Northern Japanese Alps.