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Maurizio Oviglia introduces trad crack climbing at Balmanolesca, Italy.

Maurizio Oviglia introduces 10 trad cracks at cadarese in Val d'Ossola, Italy, ideally suited to learn how to crack climb.

Italy’s Jacopo Larcher has repeated Lapoterapia, the 8c sports climb located at beautiful Osso, freed by Alessandro Manini in 2012 and repeated only by Gabriele Moroni. The report and photos by Riky Felderer.

The short film directed by Riky Felderer about Jacopo Larcher and his recent discovery of crack climbing and and trad climbing.

Interview with Italian climber Gabriele Moronim from his first competitions to when he won bronze in the 2004 European Bouldering Championship in 2004, via his bouldering and sport climbing which recently netted him the redpoint of Goldrake 9a+ at Cornalba, Italy.

Video of the 2010 first ascent of the trad route Turkey Crack at cadarese in Val d'Ossola, Italy, carried out by Sean Villanueva.

At Balmanolesca in NW Italy James Pearson made the first repeat, and first trad ascent, of A Denti Stretti 8b+, while at nearby cadarese Caroline Ciavaldini made a trad ascent of Grazie Rickie 8a+ .

British climber Tom Randall has onsighted the 8a crack climb Turkey Crack at the Italian crag cadarese. Today he repeated the famous route The Doors.

The report by Matteo della Bordella about his recent free ascent, together with David Bacci, of Freerider, the famous climb freed by Alexander and Thomas Huber on El Capitan, Yosemite.

English climber Hazel Findlay has visited the Italian crag cadarese where she repeated, amongst others, the famous route The Doors.

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

During a brief trip to Italy the Japanese climber Yuji Hirayama visited the crags Discoteca, cadarese, Valle dell'Orco and Balmanolesca in search of Italian trad.

Winter continues in full in Italy and four new icefalls have been ascened in the last couple of weeks.