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Interview with American climber Sasha DiGiulian after her ascent of Pure Imagination 9a at Red River Gorge, USA.

British climbers Tom Randall and Pete Whittaker have carried out the first pinkpoint ascent of Century Crack in the Canyonlands, USA. An analysis including the first-hand account of Steve "Crusher" Bartlett.

On 03/09/2011 Matteo Della Bordella and Fabio Palma made the first one-day ascent of their "Infinite Jest" (640m 8a+/8b max, 7b obl.), the new route forged by the Ragni di Lecco members up the Mahren rock face in Wenden, Switzerland.

Interview with French climber Arnaud Petit after his greenpoint, ie trad ascent, of the 8b sport climb Black Bean at Ceuse in France.

Nicolas Potard adds Le tresor de Romain, a new route combination up the Grand Capucin, Mont Blanc.

Slovenian climber Luka Krajnc has carried out the fourth complete free ascent of Bellavista on Cima Ovest di Lavaredo, Dolomites, first ascended by Alexander Huber solo during winter 1999 with difficulties up to A4 and then freed by German at 8c in July 2001. Urban Golob provides the report.

Steve and Angie Bradshaw provide some hands-on, in-depth information to the Psicobloc bouldering around Ha Long Bay, Vietnam

The final stage of the Bouldering World Cup 2011 took place in Munich, Germanuy last weekend and was won by Mina Markovic and Dmitry Sharafutdinov. Kilian Fischhuber and Anna Stöhr won the overall World Cup 2011.

James McHaffie has made the first repeat of The Big Bang 9a at Lower Pen Trwyn, first climbed in 1996 by Neil Carson.

Austrian climber Bernd Zangerl has returned from the Rocklands in South Africa where he established two new problems.

The first stage of the Lead World Cup 2011 started in Chamonix this morning, along with the Speed event.

Opening show of the IFSC Climbing World Championship on Saturday 16 July at 21.45 at the Climbing Stadium, Località Prabi, Arco

Austrian Kilian Fischhuber has won the Sheffield stage of the Bouldering World Cup 2011 and in doing so he has won this 5th overall World Cup. The women's event was won by won by Akiyo Noguchi.

On 31/03 and 01/04/2011 Rolando Larcher, Luca Giupponi and Nicola Sartori completed the first ascent of Pompa Funebre (150m, 8b max, 7a+ obligatory). The route had previously been started by Larcher, Giupponi and Maurizio Oviglia up the NE Face of Monte Pellegrino (Palermo, Sicily).

On 1 May 2011 the XVIII Mezzalama Trophy was won by the international team comprised of Spaniard Jornet Burgada and the Frenchmen Bon Mardion and Blanc. The women's event was won by Pellissier, Pedranzini, Martinelli. The report and excitement of the great ski mountaineering marathon on Monte Rosa, by Lorenzo...

Giuseppe 'Popi' Miotti, the visions of a climber in Val Masino – Val di Mello and the distant vertical galaxies of pure granite.