The news

Two videos about Andy Houseman and Nick Bullock, the British alpinists who in July 2012 repeated of the Slovak Direct route up Denali (6194m) in Alaska.

After years of uncertainty, sector closures and a recent massive rebolting effort, climbing at the beautiful Gorges du Tarn is now back in full swing.

Stephan Siegrist, Thomas Senf and Ralf Weber have successfully climbed Cerro Stanhardt, the northermost summit of Patagonia's Cerro Torre group, in winter and in alpine style via the classic Exocet route.

In a thrilling final on Saturday 11/08/2012 Alex Puccio from the USA and Sean McColl from Canada won the adidas Rockstars 2012.

Ines Papert, Jon Walsh and Joshua Lavigne have established Sensory Overload (1200m, 5.11+, A1) up Mount Asgard, Baffin Island.

Daniele Adriani, president of the El Cap climbing club, talks about the recent Climbing Festival which took place in the city of L'Aquila from 1 to 4 August 2012. A meeting which sent a message of hope to a city which is stubbornly fighting its way back to life after...

Austrian climber Barbara Zangerl has made the first female ascent of End of silence 8b+, Feuerhorn.

As of 19/08 the German alpinists Benedikt Bohm and Sebastian Haag and Greg Hill from America will be beneath Cho Oyu (8201m, Himalaya, Nepal-Tibet) to attempt a speed climb and descend the sixth highest mountain in the world in less than 24 hours.

On Saturday 11 August the third stage of the Lead World Cup 2012 was won by Jorg Verhoeven and Momoka Oda.

Interview with legendary Swiss boulderer and climber Fred Nicole.

The sixth and final video blog by Clement Pedrotti from the bouldering area Rocklands in South Africa.

Live streaming of the adidas ROCKSTARS finals (Saturday, from 18.00 CET),an invitational Masters with some of the world's best boulderers. At 19.30 interviews with Reinhold Messner, Dean Potter and Beat Kammerlander, at 20.00 the finals heated up by live music.

In just one week Enzo Oddo has climbed three 9a's, PPP and Promotion Canne à pêche in the Verdon and Kick-Ass in the Gorges du Loup, France.

Dave Graham has repeated Amandla 8b+, the boulder problem established by Fred Nicole at Rocklands in South Africa.

Martin and Florian Riegler have made the first ascent of Ramadhan (1100m, 9-, A2) up the virgin Kako Peak (4950m) in the Karakorum, Pakistan.

Speed, the video of Italian speed climber Leonardo Gontero and his training sessions to climb faster and faster still.