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Interview with British rock climber Ben Moon, one of the world’s greatest rock climbers throughout the 1980’s and early 1990’s with landmark first ascents such one of Britain’s first 8a, Statement of Youth at Lower Pen Trwyn in Wales and Hubble at Raven Tor, hailed as the world’s first 8c+...

French mountaineer Catherine Destivelle will become the first woman to receive the Piolet d'Or Carrière Lifetime Achievement Award at the Ladek Mountain Festival in Poland in September. In the past the coveted prize has been awarded to greatest mountaineers of all times.

The series Strange Heroes by La Sportiva continues with British rock climber James Pearson.

58 ascents carried out in 2018 have been included in the Big list, from which winners will be selected for the Piolets d’Or , the prestigious mountaineering award that will be celebrated from 19 - 22 September 2019 during the Ladek Mountain Festival in Poland. The jury is comprised of:...

Romanian mountaineers Romeo Popa, Zsolt Torok and Teofil Vlad have established a new route up the Southeast Face of Pumori 7161m, Himalaya.

A French FFME expedition to Madagascar led by Arnaud Petit and Jonathan Crison has established Soavadia, a 600m new rock climb up Tsaranoro Atsimo.

Greg Boswell and Guy Robertson have climbed a significant new route on Buachaille in Scotland called The Holy Grail IX/10.

British climber James Pearson has made the first ascent of the bold and difficult route Power Ranger (5.14R / 8c) at Sunset Rocks, Chattanooga, USA.

British climber Ned Feehally has flashed Trust Issues, an 8B+ boulder problem at Rocklands in South Africa. This is one of the hardest flash ascents to date.

The video of British climber James Pearson and his first ascent of Le voyage, a trad climb at Annot that checks is as one of the hardest single pitch pure trad routes in France.

At Annot in France James Pearson has made the first ascent of Le voyage, a trad climb graded E10 7a that might well be one of the hardest single pitch pure trad routes in the country.

The video documenting Niccolò Ceria’s first repeat of Voyager, the 8B+ boulder problem put up by Ben Moon in 2006 at Burbage North in the Peak District, England.

Italian climber Niccolò Ceria has made the first repeat of Voyager sit, the 8B+ boulder problem put up by Ben Moon in 2006 on the gritstone outcrop Burbage North in England’s Peak District.

British climber Ben Moon has made the 4th ascent of Rainshadow 9a at Malham Cove, England.

Thirteen classic gritstone boulder problems and trad climbs in the Peak District National Park climbed by Benjamin Linné Ryn at Stanage Edge, Millstone Edge, Froggatt Edge, Burbage and Black Rocks.

The Quest for early season ice climbing in Canada, by German ice climbers Matthias Scherer and Tanja Schmitt