The news

A Russian team led by Victor Kozlov is attempting new line up the west face of K2 (8611m).

Last February Massimo Faletti, Mario Cavagnini, David Rigotti made the first ascent of "Malaria" on the Rhumsiki Tower, Cameroon

On 16-17 June the third and final Scalatabel Festival took place at the Grotte des Demoiselles, le Thaurac, France.

From 15 April to 15 June Martina Cufar travelled to the U.S.A. for her first taste of Indian Creek, Yosemite, Tuolome Meadows and the Needles...

In our Lab we analyse the AKU Stone XCR, an approach shoe which combines light weight, durability and excellent grip for all types of terrain.

From 2 - 17 June Mauro Florit, Marco Sterni, Umberto Iavazzo and Massimo Sacchi made the first ascent of "Tempus fugit" 7b 700m on the S Face of Kizilin Baci 2944m, Turkey.

Christian Bindhammer and Damaris Knorr have repeated the multi-pitch Hotel Supramonte (8b) in the Gola di Gorroppu, Sardinia.

In June Kilian Fischhuber freed two Gerhard Hörhager projects in the Zillertal, Austria: “Paris in prison” 8c and “Love 2.0” 8c.

Slovenian climber Klemen Becan has made the first ascent of Privid 8c+ at Bohinjska Bela, Slovenia.

Josune Bereziartu and Rikar Otegui have made the first free ascent of Super Weissmuller 8a/8a+ on the SW Face of Petit Pic De Ansabere (France).

On 07/06/2007 Stephan Siegrist, Thomas Senf and Denis Burdet carried out first ascent of Lightning Strike (VI M5 5.9 A3 1000m) up the NE Face of Arwa Tower (6352m), Garhwal Himalaya, India.

On 14/06 Conrad Anker and Leo Houlding reached the summit of Everest following the footsteps of George Leigh Mallory and Andrew Irvine to shed light on the mystery of whether the two reached the summit of Everest on 8 June 1924.

On 9 June Yuji Hirayama on-sighted his second ever 8c, "Pata Negra" at Rodellar in Spain.

On Tuesday 5th June Dave Birkett made the second ascent of The Brothers Karamazov E9 6c at St Govan’s Head in Pembroke, Wales.

Great success at Arco for the sixth edition of the Rock Junior with hundreds of young climbers at this authentic sports climbing festival

On 9 -10 June a record VI edition of the Rock Junior will take place in Arco (Garda - Trentino): more than 500 climbers aged 5 - 13 representing 18 nations are expected at the Climbing Stadium for the only Youth Climbing Festival in Europe in which children and...