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The XX Piolet d'Or will take place in Courmayeur (Italy) and Chamonix (France) from 21 - 24 March 2012. Here are the 6 nominations for the coveted golden ice axe, while Frenchman Robert Paragot will receive the Lifetime Achievement Award.

The Frenchmen Pierre Tardivel and Jérémy Janody have skied a new line down the east face of Mount Arcalod (2217m), Bauges massif, Savoia, France.

On 21 January 2012 the Italians Francesco Salvaterra, Marco Fedrizzi and Luca Tamburini established Alice in Wonderland (550m,TD M5+/A0), up the east face of Presanella (3558m), Italy.

After the rockfall last summer, on 27/12/2012 a new rockfall ocurrred on the North-north-east face of Pizzo Cengalo (3369m, Bregaglia) in Val Bondasca on the Swiss - Italian border. The report by Marcello Negrini.

This December Roger Schaeli and Simon Gietl established Let's get wild (600m, 7a, 90°), their new route up Aguja Guillaumet (2579m) in Patagonia.

A section at the base of the east face of Sass Maor has collapsed in the Pale di San Martino range in the Dolomites.

In August 2011 German climbers Martin Schindele, Lukas Binder, Philipp Hofmann and Tobias Baur established Dreams of Youth (8c, 700m) up Tsaranoro Atsimo, Madagascar.

Last summer Alessio Roverato established Momento Libero (330m, 8a max, 7a/b obligatory), up the SE Face of Sasso Rosso (Valsugana, Valbrenta, Italy).

The video filmed by Jonathan Griffith of his ascent of Cerro Standhart and Cerro Piergiorgio in Patagonia.

In summer 2011 American alpinists Mark Richey, Steve Swenson and Freddie Wilkinson summited the second highest unclimbed mountain in the world, Sasser Kangri II (7518m). Trip report and questions with Steve Swenson

The video of Kyle Dempster and Bruce Normand and their 2010 routes up Mount Edgar and Grosvenor in China.

Interview with Swedish extreme skier Andreas Fransson after the first ski descent of the South Face of Denali, Alaska.

The video of the first winter ascent of Spada nella Roccia, Qualido, in Val di Mello (Val Masino) carried out by Daniele Bernasconi and Simone Pedeferri in February 2011.

Last night Walter Bonatti passed away. He was 81 years old and one of the greatest legends of alpinism of all times.

In June 2011 the Italian alpinists Fabrizio Manoni, Enrico Rosso and Paolo Stoppini established two new routes on Nevado Santa Cruz in the Andes, Peru.

On Thursday 28 April Swiss alpinist and mountain guide Erhard Loretan died in a climbing accident while ascending Grünhorn in the Bernse Alps. Loretan was one of the greatest alpinists of the modern era, the third person to have climbed all fourteen 8000m peaks and the second to do so...