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French climber Alizée Dufraisse has sent her first 8c+, Patinoso 8c+ at Siurana, Spain.

An unusual video for accident prevention and safety in the mountains.

The video of Gabriele Moroni on Bella Regis 8c+ at Bus de Vela, Trento, Italy.

At the start of December Colin Haley and Jorge Ackerman completed a new route up Aguja Standhardt in Patagonia: El Caracol (500m, 5.9, A1+, M4). On 7 December Haley soloed Aguja Innominata via the Anglo-American route 400m 6c (6b+ A0).

The video of Sasha Di Giulian climbing Pure Imagination, 9a at Red River Gorge, USA.

Interview with Adam Ondra after the first repeat of Gioia 8C+ at Varazze, Italy.

Adam Ondra has made the first repeat of Gioia at Varazze in Italy, the 8C+ boulder problem freed by Christian Core in 2008.

Video of Ron Kauk on his boulder problem Midnight Lightning in Yosemite, USA.

The American magazine Outside has chosen Planetmountain as one of world's best 10 climbing sites.

Austrian climber David Lama has made the first repeat of Woher Kompass (8a+, 120m) and has freed Vamos a la playa (six pitches, 8b+) above Cevio in Switzerland's Tessin.

At Red River Gorge (USA) Adam Taylor has freed Southern Smoke Direct 5.15a, while Jorg Verhoeven has repeated 25 difficult routes including Pure Imagination 9a.

After the teaser, the entire snowboard film This is my winter is now online with Xavier de Le Rue, Mathieu Crepel, Andreas Fransson and Samuel Anthamatten.

On 19/11/2011 Glen Plake and Rémy Lécluse carried out the first ski descent of the SE couloir of Punta Ceresole on Cresta Gastaldi (Gran Paradiso).

Daniel Woods has flashed Entlinge 8B+/C in the Murgtal, Switzerland.

Daniel Woods has flashed Entlinge 8B+/C in the Murgtal, Switzerland.

The last stage of the Lead World Cup 2011 was won in Barcelona, Spain, on Sunday night by Ramón Julian Puigblanque, while the women's event was tied by Angela Eiter, Jain Kim and Mina Markovic. The overall Cup was won by Jakob Schubert and Mina Markovic, while Ramón Julian Puigblanque...