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Last night an earthquake hit Sikkim, India, causing devastation and at least 40 deaths between dIndia, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Nepal and Tibet.

On Saturday 19 September 2011 at Villa Gomez (Lecco, Italy) the world of alpinism paid its final respect to Walter Bonatti. The video by Andrea Giorda

In the Bhagirathi group (India) the Italian alpinists Daniele Nardi and Roberto Delle Monache established a new route between Bhagirathi III (6457m) and Bhagirathi IV (6193m).

The 2010 video filmed by Jim Surette of American climber Steve House as he solos two classic icefalls, Repentance and Remission in New Hampshire, USA.

Norwegian climber Magnus Midtboe sheds some light onto the Hanshellern cave (also known as Flatanger) in Norway.

Two videos by Betty Wants about the magic of flying, for parachuters and BASE-jumpers and also for all those, including alpinists, who look at the world from other points of view.

In August 2011 a Russian expedition established No Fear (6b+, A3, 1120m) up Nameless Tower, Trango group, Karakorum

Nicolas Potard adds Le tresor de Romain, a new route combination up the Grand Capucin, Mont Blanc.

The thoughts for Walter Bonatti which PlanetMountain received from the alpinists...

Enrico Maioni, Mountain Guide from Cortina, Italy, informs that a landslide on the Tofana di Rozes has changed the descent from the routes on the Pilastro, Primo Spigolo and Terzo Spigolo.

Last night Walter Bonatti passed away. He was 81 years old and one of the greatest legends of alpinism of all times.

Slovenian climber Luka Krajnc has carried out the fourth complete free ascent of Bellavista on Cima Ovest di Lavaredo, Dolomites, first ascended by Alexander Huber solo during winter 1999 with difficulties up to A4 and then freed by German at 8c in July 2001. Urban Golob provides the report.

American climber Sasha DiGiulian has sent her third 8c+ Cosi Fan Tutte at Rodellar in Spain and on-sighted Maskoking 8b+.

Last Saturday and Sunday several enormous rockfalls fell from the Drus (Mont Blanc).

An iPhone application with videos and exercises of all the main training methods to improve power, technique and stamina, created by Alessandro Jolly Lamberti and Piero Amato.

Steve and Angie Bradshaw provide some hands-on, in-depth information to the Psicobloc bouldering around Ha Long Bay, Vietnam