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Sunday 8 September 2013. During the last day of Rock Master Festival 2013 the Boulder competition was won by Russia's Rustam Gelmanov and, for the second year running, America's Alex Puccio. Sean McColl from Canada and Dinara Fakhritdinova from Russia won the Duel challenge. Stefano Ghisolfi from Italy placed second...

Sunday 8 September 2013. All is set at the Climbing Stadium for the Rock Master 2013 grand finale. At 12:30 the Men's Boulder Final, at 15.30 the Lead Duel and at 17:00 the Women's Boulder Final.

Saturday 7 September 2013. In a stadium filled to the brim Ramón Julian Puigblanque climbed extraordinarily to win his 7th Rock Master. Mina Markovic celebrated her La Sportiva Competition Award in the best way possible by winning the climbing champion's Master.

The results of the Lead Semifinale and the pre-quarter finals of the IFSC Climbing World Cup Speed, currently being held at Rock Master 2013.

On Friday 7/09/2013 during the 8th edition of Arco Rock Legends the Salewa Rock Award was won by Adam Ondra while Mina Markovic won the La Sportiva Competition Award. Paraclimbing and all Paraclimbers received the prestigious prize Climbing Ambassador by Aquafil.

On 6 September 2013, thirty athletes from 10 nations competed in the Arco International Paraclimbing Cup 2013. An exciting moment marked, above all, by great climbing.

Christopher Webb-Parsons, Shinta Ozawa, Mauricio Huerta, Klemen Becan and Jabee Kim all qualified today in Arco for the Rock Master Festival Men's Boulder Final on Sunday. Mathilde Becerra, Yulia Abramchuk, Annalisa De Marco and Aya Onoe are the women qualifiers.

Akiyo Noguchi, Maja Vidmar, Mathilde Becerra and Risa Ota all qualify for the Semifinal of Rock Master 2013. The male qualifiers for Saturday’s onsight are Domen Skofic, Dmitry Fakiryanov, Francesco Vettorata and Klemen Becan.

On 10/08/2013 Stefano Codazzi and Daniele Natali made the first ascent Dall’alba al tramonto (6c (6b+ obblig) / S3 / II, 230m), a new climb up the SE Face of Presolana Centrale.

At the Arco Rock Master Festival and during the 8th Arco Rock Legends scheduled to take place on 6 September, the Paraclimbers and the entire Paraclimbing movement will receive the Climbing Ambassador by Aquafil award. That same evening two other sport climbing Oscars will be celebrated: La Sportiva Competition Award...

The imposing squad of the Ultra Trail du Mont Blanc kept spreading under the stars of the Chamonix night. Until 14:30 on Sunday afternoon, each competitor fought fight to pass the final line of the main race on time to be part of the legend. Like Rory Bosio and Xavier...

On Sunday night at Eindhoven (The Netherlands) the Austrians Anna Stöhr and Kilian Fischhuber won the European Bouldering Championship 2013. Silver was won by Russia's Dmitrii Sharafutdinov and Slovenia's Mina Markovic, bronze by the Austrian Jakob Schubert and France's Mélanie Sandoz. Michael Piccolruaz, the best Italian, finished a surprising 5th.

A look into a forgotten and neglected world that lies right under our nose: the Gran Paradiso Film Festival (August 26th – 31st in Cogne, Rhemes Saint Georges, Valsavarenche Villeneuve and Ceresole Reale) presented an opportunity to consider our relationship with nature.

01/09/2013. The second and final day of Rock Junior 2013 came to an end with the Under 14 Cup, Kid's Rock and Family Rock, the climbing festival for the youngest. The Italians Laura Rogora and Filip Schenk won the trophy in memory of Tito Traversa, the young climbing champion who...

22 photos of Rock Junior 2013 and its young protagonists taken by Giulio Malfer.

Over 200 young climbers competed in first day of Rock Junior Under 14 Cup at Arco, Italy.