9521 News found

Giorgio Tagliasacchi informs that climbing is banned at the new bouldering area Codoleddu in Sardinia.

All the nominations for the VIth Arco Rock Legends, the sport climbing Oscars scheduled to take place on Thursday 21 July 2011 at Arco (Italy) with two awards, the Salewa Rock Award and the La Sportiva Competition Award. The celebration...

The French company Petzl has issued a recall which concerns its GRIGRI 2’s (D14 2O, D14 2G, D14 2B ) with the first five digits of the serial number between 10326 and 11136.

On 24/05/2011 Fabio Meraldi and Diego Giovannini established a new route up the East Spur of Kahiltna Peaks West (3914m, McKinley-Denali mountain chain, Alaska).

Interview with the American climbers Alex Honnold and Ray Jardine after Honnold's solo of The Phoenix (5.13a) in Yosemite Valley.

Video of Matt Helliker and Jon Bracey during the first ascent of the Cartwright Connection on Mount Hunter in the Denali National Park, Alaska

On 13/06/2011 12-year-old Eva Scroccaro from Italy, redpointed Masochismo at Baratro, her first 8b.

On 2 June 2011 Florian and Martin Riegler freed "Zauberberg" (the Magic Mountain) 8a max on Ciastel de Chedul, Vallunga (Val Gardena - Dolomites).

Maurizio Oviglia introduces three new crags in Southern Sardinia: Cave of dreams, Villasimius e Broadway

The splendid round-trip to discover Croda da Lago in the Dolomites, introduced by Mountain Guide Enrico Maioni.

Video of rockfall off Half Dome, Yosemite, USA, which took place on 27/05/2011 and thankfully injured no one.

At the start of May Alexander Ruchkin and Mikhail Mikhaylov carried out the first ascent of the Shark's Tooth (1555m) in Greenland via their route 'Dance on Tiptoes' (1210m, VII A2, 6c).

The Dolomiti-Dolomiten-Dolomites-Dolomitis UNESCO Foundation now celebrates its second anniversary since being added to the list of World Heriage Sites, with an event dedicated to families and children on Sunday 26 June 2011 in Val di Zoldo, at Forno di Zoldo.

Swedish skier Andreas Fransson has carried out the first ski descent of the South Face of Denali (6197m), while British alpinists Jonathan Griffith and Will Sim have sped up the Cassin ridge in 14 hours 40 minutes.

In April 2011 Simon Montmory established Inspiration (150m, 7a+ ) on Telendos, Kalymnos, Greece

Leo Houlding provides the details of The Prophet, his October 2010 new route on El Capitan, Yosemite, USA.