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04/09/2013 - Competitions
Wind of change at the 2013 edition of The North Face Ultra-Trail du Mont-Blanc 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...

05/05/2013 - Events
Melloblocco 2013: day ten, goodbye to the Valley 5/05/2013. The last day of the 10th Melloblocco. 10 days of climbing and bouldering to reaffirm the indissoluble bond between Val Masino - Val di Mello and the Melloblockers. All 2,000 climbers have promised to return next year.

04/05/2013 - Events
Melloblocco, 2013, day eight: climbing without limits While over 1300 Melloblockers have already registered and many more are expected, sunny Val Masino welcomed the initiative Climbing without limits promoted by the region of Lombardy, CIP, FASI, ERSAF which aims at a different form of taking to the mountains, for everyone. Paraclimbing athletes Silvia Parente, Simone Salvagnin and...

05/10/2012 - Competitions
Climbing competitions at St. Peter's, the Vatican The Italian and the International Federation of Sport Climbing (FASI, IFSC) has organize a climbing event to take place on October 7th 2012 in Saint Peter's, the Vatican.

28/05/2012 - Alpinism
Everest, the crowd and the race to nowhere The race towards the highest mountain on earth: a multitude of summits, long queues and, like every year, too many deaths. By Vinicio Stefanello.

27/12/2011 - Events
Climb For Life for a Happy Christmas packed with solidarity Once again Climb For Life raises awareness amongst climbers about the need for bone marrow transplant. The initiative by Pietro Dal Prà e Giovanni Spitale includes Climb for life T-shirts at indoor climbing walls.

06/04/2011 - Events
The earthquake in Abruzzo, two years on Published below is an open letter written by Agostino Cittadini, a Mountain Guide from L'Aquila, who invites everyone to not forget the terrible earthquake which shook the Abruzzo region on 6 April two years ago...

09/12/2010 - Alpinism
Rosso 70, awarded at the Bansko Film Festival Rosso 70, the film directed by Francesco Mansutti and Vinicio Stefanello and which retraces the 70 yera mountaineering history f the Scoiattoli mountaineering club in Cortina, has won the Jury's Special Prize during the Bulgaria's X° International Mountain Film Festival in Bansko

13/10/2010 - Alpinism
solidarity for the family of Walter Nones An appeal for solidarity for the family of Walter Nones, first published on the internet site www.karlunterkircher.com.

02/08/2010 - Events
Mountain stories: Courmayeur, August 2010 4 evenings and 4 great mountaineering stories as told by Valery Babanov, Hans Kammerlander, Silvio Mondinelli and Stevie Haston. The evenings will be introduced by Vinicio Stefanello, editor of PlanetMountain.com.

27/01/2010 - Interviews
Reinhold Messner interview Reinhold Messner, his life and alpinism beyond the 8000m peaks. Interview by Erminio Ferrari and Ellade Ossola.

28/12/2009 - Alpinism
7 die in avalanche in Dolomites Two hikers died on 26/12/2009 in Val Lasties (Dolomites), as did four members of the Val di Fassa Mountain Rescue Squad. At Solda a 12 year old boy went missing while skiing off-piste.

14/11/2009 - Alpinism
Tomaz Humar found dead on Langtang Lirung This morning at 05.25 European time the dead body of Slovenian alpinist Tomasz Humar was recovered from 5600m on the South Face of Langtang Lirung (7230m, Nepal) by a helicopter with a rescue team comprised of Swissmen Robert Andenmatten and Simon Anthmatten (Air Zermatt) and the Italians Oskar Piazza and...

20/04/2009 - Snow Ski-skimountaineering
The XVII Mezzalama stopped before the start, 17th edition postponed The start of the Mezzalama Trophy scheduled for Sunday morning proved impossible due to deteriorating weather conditions which forced the organisers to postpone the start of more than 1000 athletes already at the start at Breuil - Cervinia. The classic ski mountaineering competition will probably be postponed a fortnight to...

09/04/2009 - Competitions
International Master in Penne cancelled Due to the earthquake which hit the Abruzzo region of Italy, the Vertigo sports club has decided to cancel the International Lead Master at Penne, scheduled for 18 and 19 April 2009.

12/09/2008 - Alpinism
In memory of Pavle Kozjek Pavle Kozjek was officially declared dead on 11 September after disappearing on Muztagh Tower on 25 August 2008. A commemoration service will be held on 17 September in Ljubljana, Slovenia.
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