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From 14/04/2012 to 07/05/2012 the Polish climbers Marek Raganowicz and Marcin Tomaszewski established Superbalance (VII, A4, M7+) , a new big wall climb up the Polar Sun Spire, Baffin Island.

The Banff mountain Photography Competition Grand Prize has been won by British photographer Neal Grundy. Italian photographer Sandro Sedran has received the Jury Special Mention.

Video by Kevin Jaramillo of Hayden Kennedy and Ivo Ninov on the famous rock climb Bachar - Yerian (5.11c R/X) at Tuolumne Meadows, Yosemite, USA.

Great mourning in the ski mountaineering world and that of the mountains in general: on Sunday 17/06/2012 the 41 year-old ski mountaineering champion Stephane Brosse died as a result of a cornice collapse on Aiguille Argentiere (Mont Blanc).

Yesterday the National Geographic Society awarded the title Explorer of the Year to Austrian alpinist Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner. The late Swiss oceanographer Jacques Piccard was awarded the Hubbard Medal.

The video of Steve McClure climbing Hubble 8c+, the super route freed by Ben Moon at Raven Tor, England.

On 13/06/2012 the Italian climber Silvio Reffo made the first ascent of L'attimo 9a at the crag Covolo.

Video of Alex Honnold during his solo ascent in Yosemite up Mt. Watkins, El Capitan and Half Dome.

Interview with American climber Alex Honnold after his immense and fast solo of the Yosemite Triple in Yosemite Valley, USA.

The final three videos with Tom Randall and Pete Whittaker explaining the climbing techniques needed for getting up cracks: offwidth, gear and gear placements and taping.

Alex Honnold has doubled his takings: after the fast ascent of the trio Mount Watkins, El Capitan and Half Dome with Tommy Caldwell, between 5 and 6 June the 26-year-old US climber carried out an incredible and fast solo ascent of the Yosemite Triple once again.

On 25 May 2012 Valery Rozov from Russia made the highest BASE Jump in the world by leaping from 6420m just below the summit of Shivling in the Himalaya.

The second edition of the Karl Unterkircher Award will take place on 6 July 2012 at Selva di Val Gardena in the Italian Dolomites. The alpinists nominated for this award are Simone Moro, Denis Urubko and Cory Richards for the first winter ascent of Gasherbrum II, Sean Villanueva, Ben Ditto,...

The first three short videos to learn the art of climbing cracks, a useful tutorial which examines everything from finger cracks to how to tape up

Today at Ceuse in France Adam Ondra made the first ascent of the climb Jungle Boogie 9a+.

At the end of April American climber Cody Roth made the first trad ascent of Mainliner at Las Conchas the Jemez Mountains, New Mexico, USA. At 5.14a/b R (8b+/8c) this checks in as one of the harder trad pitches in North America.