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Michele Caminati and Francesco Deiana have repeated Is not always Pasqua at Collina di Interprete. Graded E9 7a and established by Mauro Calibani in 2002, this is one of the hardest trad climbs in Italy.

Watch Belgian rock climber Siebe Vanhee as his explores the trad climbing on the gritstone crags in the UK, where he manages to to meet up with British climbing legends such as John Dunne, Pete Whittaker, Sam Whittaker, Jim Pope, Franco Cookson, Ben Heason and Johnny Dawes.

On 17 August 2020 Pete Whittaker made a free solo of the 800m Renshaw/Foulkes route on Kjerag in Norway. The climb features in this year’s Brit Rock Film Tour and the British rock climber has now released footage explaining how the ascent was filmed.

The second video of British rock climber James Pearson repeating Harder Faster at Black Rocks in the Peak District, UK.

During a climbing trip to the UK, Belgium’s Siebe Vanhee repeated a flurry of hard gritstone trad climbs including Parthian Shot E9, End of the Affair E8 and Gaia E8.

The video of Caroline Ciavaldini climbing Gaia and James Pearson repeating Harder, Faster at Black Rocks in the UK.

The video of British climber Jacob Cook making the first ascent in 2014 of The Lizard King, an E9 trad climb at Ilkley in England

Interview with James Pearson and Caroline Ciavaldini after their respective repeats of Harder Faster and Gaia at Black Rocks in England. These hard grit testpieces were first ascended by Charlie Woodburn and Johnny Dawes and while Pearson’s is only the third ascent in 20 years, Ciavaldini had made the third...

At Black Rocks in England James Pearson has repeated the extremely dangerous gritstone testpiece Harder, Faster while his wife Caroline Ciavaldini has repeated Gaia. Pearson’s is only the third ascent in 20 years, while Ciavaldini claims the third female ascent.

The video of blind rock climber Jesse Dufton climbing the famous E2 trad climb Forked Lightning Crack at Heptonstall Quarry in England.

The video Big Balls & Ground Falls featuring a selection of some of most famous trad climbs on the gritstone crags in England’s Peak District.

Joe Brown, one of the world’s greatest all-round climbers, passed away last night aged 89. Brown pioneered climbs throughout Great Britain, the Alps and the Greater Ranges in particular in the 1950's and '60's. Cenotaph Corner on Dinas Cromlech in Wales and the first ascent of Kangchenjunga (8586m) in Nepal...

Interview with British rock climber Pete Whittaker about his new book Crack climbing - Mastering the skills and techniques

28-year-old Slovenian climber Jernej Kruder has repeated Dreamtime at Cresciano in Switzerland, the frist boulder probelm in the world to be graded 8C, established by Fred Nicole in 2000.

Andy Pollitt, a rock climbing icon of 80’s and 90’s, passed away on 13 November 2019 in a Melbourne hospital. He was 56. Dave Barnes pays tribute.

Italian climber Michele Caminati has repeated Greenspit, the difficult trad climb freed in Italy’s Valle Orco by Didier Berthod. The ascent marks a significant comeback after his fall on England’s gritstone in 2017.