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Antonio Boscacci, the great climber, alpinist, mathematician, writer, photographer and one of the most visionary inventors of the new climbing in Val di Mello and further afield died tody aged 63 after battling long against illness.

The video of Gaz Parry climbing Reservoir Dogs E8 7a at Widdop, England.

In May Hansjörg Auer from Austria on-sighted the famous route Strawberries first ascended by Ron Fawcett in 1980 at Tremadog in Wales. In more than 30 years this trad climb has only been on-sighted by Stefan Glowacz and Jorg Verhoeven.

We asked Italian writer and alpinist Erri De Luca to comment the photo of the queue on Everest which recently made its way across the internet... here's his vision.

The race towards the highest mountain on earth: a multitude of summits, long queues and, like every year, too many deaths. By Vinicio Stefanello.

Michele Caminati has made the first ascent of Il Dado è tratto!, a new trad climb graded E7 6c at Lagoni, Italy.

The North Face of Grossglockner: Pallavicinirinne and Mayerlrampe introduced by Vittorio Messini, Mountain Guide Kals am Großglockner.

Interview with Simone Moro who descended to Everst Base Camp today and abandoned his project of climbing Everest and then Lhotse without supplementary oxygen due to the massive crowds on the mountain (more than 200 are currently attempting to reach...

On 18-19 May 2012 Alex Honnold amd Tommy Caldwell became the first climbers to ascend El Capitan, Half Dome and Mount Watkins in Yosemite in less than 24 hours.

At the start of May 2012 in Corsica's Bavella massif the Italians Rolando Larcher and Maurizio Oviglia made the first ascent of Vecchia Felpa on Punta U Peru (190m, 7c max /RS2/I) while Luca Giupponi and Nicola Sartori made the...

On 14/05/2012 Austrian alpinist David Lama has carried out a remarkable, fast and solitary repeat of Les Barbares on Pointe Raphel Borgis du Pré de Bar (Argentière, Mont Blanc, France).

The video of Nick Bullock making the first ascent of The Frumious Bandersnatch (E7 6c) at Rhoscolyn, North Wales.

The climbing ban has been lifted today from the crag La Corma di Machaby located at Arnad, Valle d'Aosta, Italy.

The video Tomorrow I Will Be Gone and the bouldering at Rocklands, South Africa.

Video of Yosemite Valley, the heart of rock climbing in the USA and the world.

On the Pilastro della Tofana di Rozes in the Dolomites Massimo Da Pozzo, Natasha Alexander and Samuele Majoni have made the first ascent of Spigolo Sam (6c, 500m circa).