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14/07/2011 - Competitions

IFSC World Championship in Arco a 10 day climbing celebration

The IFSC World Championship kicks off in Arco and expectations for this great sport event are simply enormous.

04/07/2011 - Competitions

Fischhuber and Noguchi victorious in Sheffield. Fischhuber wins 5th Bouldering World Cup

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.

04/07/2011 - Climbing

Nina Caprez makes first female ascent of Silbergeier, Rätikon

Interview with Nina Caprez after the swiss climber carried out the first female ascent of Silbergeier, shortly after her partner Cedric Lachat repeated the 240m 8b/8b+ in the Rätikon, Switzerland.

01/07/2011 - Climbing

Giuliano Cameroni, bouldering galore

14-year-old swiss boulderer Giuliano Cameroni and his spring ascents in Chironico, Cresciano, Magic wood and Gottardo.

24/05/2011 - Climbing

Delicatessen, first repeat in Corsica's Bavella after 10 years by Nina Caprez, Cédric Lachat

Cédric Lachat and Nina Caprez have carried out the first and second repeat of Delicatessen at Punta d’u Corbu at Col de la Bavella, Corsica. The 120m high 8b was established by Arnaud Petit and Stéphane Husson in 1992 and freed by Arnaud in 2001.

07/05/2011 - Events

Melloblocco day two – it's a record!

With 2500 registered climbers on the second day, the eighth Melloblocco has already broken all previous records. The number will increase tomorrow during the final day of the world's biggest bouldering and climbing meeting.

02/05/2011 - Competitions

Mezzalama Trophy 2011. The race, winners and a renewed competition

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...

29/04/2011 - Competitions

Mezzalama Trophy 2011: the great Monte Rosa ski mountaineering competition postpoined to Sunday

The start of the XVIII "Mezzalama" has been postponed to 05:30 on Sunday 1 May

29/04/2011 - Alpinism

Erhard Loretan, good-bye to a great alpinist

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...

27/04/2011 - Events

59th TrentoFilmFestival, select events

The 59th Trento Film Festival takes place from 28 April to 8 May to celebrate mountains, society, cinema and literature. Numerous mountaineering personalities gather in Italy's Trento including Messner, Herzog, Bonatti, Mazeaud, Erri De Luca, Mauro Corona, Neri Marcoré, Enrico Brizzi and Mario Brunello.

22/04/2011 - Alpinism

Eiger speed record by Dani Arnold

On 20/04/2011 Dani Arnold from Switzerland climbed the Heckmair route up the North Face of the EIger in 2 hours 28 minutes, setting a new speed record up this historic line.

21/04/2011 - Alpinism

Ueli Steck, the climb up Shisha Pangma

Some details about Ueli Steck's recent speed ascent of Shisha Pangma.

18/04/2011 - Alpinism

Ueli Steck top speed solo on Shisha Pangma

On 17/04/2011 Swissman Ueli Steck ascended Shisha Pangma (8027m), Tibet in record time.

15/04/2011 - Alpinism

Ueli Steck in the Himalaya

swiss alpinist Ueli Steck is back in the Himalaya, at present in Shisha Pangma base camp, ready for an attempt up the South Face together with Don Bowie

07/04/2011 - Alpinism

Piolet d'Or 2011, the program

The program of the IXX Piolet d'Or which will be held in Courmayeur and Chamonix (Mont Blanc) from 13 - 16 April 2011. All the awards, conferences, lectures and debates of one of the most important mountaineering events in the world.