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Today 30 adventure athletes set out from Salzburg on the race of their lives: the Red Bull X-Alps.

Chrigel Maurer is the most successful paragliding pilot of our days and the titleholder of Red Bull X-Alps. In 3 days, the Red Bull X-Alps 2011 will start in Salzburg. In the following interview, we asked Chrigel Maurer 12 questions.

This morning at 06:45 Russian alpinist and base jumper Valery Rozov carried out the first BASE jump off the Italian side of Mont Blanc

Xavier Murillo, 55, from France, member of Paragliding World Cup Association and respected pilot has been reported missing since Friday 1 July. Xavier has not reported or been seen after he took off with a white paraglider in the area of Caraz in Peru. The comunity of pilots and moutaineers...

Interview with Simone Moro about the latest helicopter rescues in Nepal's mountains.

Interview with British mountaineer Matt Hellinker after his first ascent of the Cartwright Connection, up Moonflower Buttress on Mount Hunter in the Denali National Park, Alaska together with Jon Bracey.

Interview with Austrian climber Hansjörg Auer after the 22 April first free ascent of Hallucinogen Wall 5.13+/R in the Black Canyon, Colorado, USA.

Interview with British mountaineer Stuart Holmes after his paraglide flight from the summit of Ama Damblam. 6856m, Nepal.

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).

In April 2011 a small French team comprised of Arnaud Petit, Aymeric Clouet and young Enzo Oddo travelled to the Taghia Gorge in Morocco where they created Walou Bass, a 150m climb with difficulties up to 8c.

Eva Scroccaro repeats "Il Padrone Assoluto" 8a/8a+ at Napoleonica and the video of Tito Traversa climbing "Je est un autre" 8b at Castillon in France, filmed by Andrea Tosi.

Raoul Martinez, Sean Villanueva, Cintia Percivati and have carried out the first free ascent of Golden Eagle (7a/7a+, 700m), established by Alexander Huber and Stephan Siegrist in 2006 on Aguja Desmochada, Patagonia.

On 18 February 2011 Alain Seletto and Tony Sbalbi, Roberta Pedranzini and Francesca Martinelli won the 16th Sellaronda Skimarathon, the great ski mountaineering competition in the Dolomites. An analysis of the magical tour which crosses the passes Gardena, Campolongo, Pordoi and Sella by Lorenzo Scandroglio.

On 29 January 2011 Massimo Flaccavento, Ilaria Raboni, Simone Bergamaschi and Ivo Ferarri established La farfalla di Ilaria, a new route up Pizzo Castelluzzo (San Vito Lo Capo, Trapani, Sicily).

Gabriele Moroni talks about Il frutto del diavolo 8c+/9a, his new route bolted and freed at Bus de Vela close to Arco, Italy.

In October 2010 Rolando Larcher and Luca Giupponi established Red, Moon and Star (8a/8a+ max, 7b obl., 400m) up the North Face of Kizilin Bacì (Ala Daglar, Cappadocia, Turkey).