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Massone, Nago, Belvedere, Spiaggia delle Lucertole and Calvario: five crags you must visit to savour the best sport climbing around Arco and Lake Garda. This is the first article in a series made with Vibram, to celebrate climbing yesterday, today and tomorrow as part of its 'Learn to Climb with...

Across the La Leze arch in Spain Basque rock climbers Iker and Eneko Pou have made the first free ascent of the spectacular multipitch Jon, first ascended by Rafael Heras and José Otxoa de Eribe in 1992.

The Dolorock Climbing Festival is back and for the eighth edition of the Dolomites climbing festival the organisers have devised a new formula: the meeting no longer takes place on a specific day, but climbing in the Höhlensteintal / Landro Valley can be carried out throughout July.

On 4 May 2021 Swiss mountain guide Jonas Schild repeated Bain de Sang, the classic 9a at Saint Loup in Switzerland first ascended by Fred Nicole in 1993.

This summer and autumn the picturesque Val Sapin above Courmayeur in Italy’s Aosta Valley hosts the third edition of Tiro Leader, a climbing challenge to free two difficult sport climbs at the historic crag La città di Uruk. The first to free the routes bolted by Federica Mingolla and Alberto...

Alessandro Larcher reports about his greenpoint ascent of Bombo Balla at Bus de Vela above Trento, Italy. Put in other words, the Italian rock climber repeated the 8b+ sport climb in October 2020 skipping the bolts and as a trad climb.

The first stage of the IFSC Speed World Cup was won yesterday in Salt Lake City, USA by Veddriq Leonardo from Indonesia and Aleksandra Miroslaw from Poland. Leonardo set a new Speed world record with the time of 5.258 seconds.

English climber Steve McClure has made a flash ascent of Impact Day, a difficult and somewhat dangerous E8 6c trad route at Pavey Ark in England.

The portrait of Egyptian rock climber Wafaa Amer featured in the short film Hura directed by Matteo Pavana and Pietro Porro.

Emanuele Andreozzi, Matteo Faletti and Santiago Padrós have made the first ascent of Pazzione Primavernale, a new winter climb up the NNE face of Cima Tosa in the Brenta Dolomites.

Interview by Maurizio Oviglia with American rock climber Jenny Fischer.

The climbing video of Marcello Bombardi making the third ascent of Lapsus at Andonno in Italy at the start of May 2021.

Watch Niccolò Ceria climbing some of the most famous boulder problems in the Zillertal, Austria. During his visit, the Italian established a new bloc called Faber Castell.

Austrian climber Eva Hammelmüller and Brazilian climber Cesar Grosso at the crag Massone in Arco, Italy, have repeated Underground, the 9a sport climb established in 1998 by Manfred Stuffer.

During a quick visit to Piedmont, Italy, Jacopo Larcher completed two important first repeats on the rough granite of Valle dell'Orco: the multi-pitch Angels and Demons on the Caporal with Barbara Zangerl and the highball Grenzenlos.

American rock climber Brittany Goris has made a rare free ascent of the Salathé Wall on El Capitan.