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Climbers such as Sean McColl, Sasha DiGiulian and Edu Marin have accepted the Ice Bucket Challenge, the campaign aimed at raising awareness and funds for Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS)

Ang Tshering Sherpa, President Nepal Mountaineering Association, reports about recent meetings and decisions regarding climbing Everest and Nepal's mountains in general.

The 11th Melloblocco came to an end today; once again the international bouldering meeting proved to be the biggest event of its kind worldwide, with 2600 registered climbers and more than 4000 people in Val Masino and Val di Mello

On 21 and 22 October 2013 Santiago Padros and Domen Kastelic made the first ascent of Monsoon (1500m /75°) up the SW Face of Kang Nachugo East, Rolwaling valley, Himalaya, Nepal.

The report by Marco Spataro about the IV Tor des Geants 2013, the race along the paths at the foot of Mont Blanc and the great Valle d'Aosta peaks (330km and 24.000 elevation gain), won by Iker Karrera and Francesca Canepa.

The Cancer Council Australia has received a £10,000 donation from the initiative Climbers against Cancer.

The Climb for Life 2013 T-shirt campaign has just been launched to inform about and promote bone marrow donation. All proceeds will support ADMO, the Italian association of bone marrow donors.

The new website Climb for Life [www.climbforlife.it] went online on 1 October 2012. This aims at providing the climbing community with information about bone marrow donation. The initiative and new campaign to raise awareness is entitled: "You don’t have to be big".

We have received and published the report sent to us by Giovanni Groaz, on behalf of the Help Jim Bridwell Committee, regarding the donations received and sent to the American climber after the appeal in 2008.

The great bouldering contest to save the world kicked off on 20/12/2011 at the Wild King Boulder Arena in Verona, Italy. This competition will take place every month until 20/12/2012 and is open to everyone who wishes to battle it out on three extreme problems to exorcise the Maya prophecy.

Xavier Murillo, 55, from France, member of Paragliding World Cup Association and respected pilot has been reported missing since Friday 1 July. Xavier has not reported or been seen after he took off with a white paraglider in the area of Caraz in Peru. The comunity of pilots and moutaineers...

CLIMB FOR LIFE-GIVE BONE MARROW is aimed at all climbers worldwide who wish to do something good and donate bone marrow. Italian climber Pietro Dal Prà presents the initiative.

An appeal for solidarity for the family of Walter Nones, first published on the internet site www.karlunterkircher.com.

Rock Junior 2010 will collect donations for Zaila Rakhmetov

Encouraging news about Zaila Rakhmetov, the daughter of Salavat and Guzel Rakhmetov.

Following a serious accident to his daughter Zaila, the Russian climber Salavat Rakhmetov has launched an appeal to the entire climbing community.