The news

Pons wins the penultimate stage at Grenoble and clinches overall victory in Bouldering World Cup 2000. Liv Sansoz wins women's event.

New wall and new competition formula for new Millennium

Three competitions in three days decide Dolomites Master Climbing

The Big Mother 8c+/9a strong contender for the hardest route in Italy

Dulac and Sansoz triumph in France's most famous bouldering competition

The winners of the ALP/CERVINO International Film Festival

Two Superfinals needed for Hirayama and Sansoz to win prestigious Master

Rakhmetov and Choumilova win third stage beneath downpour

Italian Dino Lagni and French Stéphanie Bodet win first event of World Cup Difficulty 2000.

Advice and maintenance for ski touring skins.

Interview with Yuji Hirayama, by Vinicio Stefanello, Nicoletta Costi and Nicola Noè after the 1999 Arco Rock Master.

interview with Katie Brown by Nicoletta Costi and Nicola Noè after the 1999 edition of the Arco Rock Master.

French alpinist Catherine Destivelle has made a solitary repeat of the Hasse - Brandler route up Cima Grande, Tre Cime di Lavaredo, Dolomites.

In January the Pustertal alpinists Christoph Hainz and Kurt Astner scored a real coup by making, in two attempts, the first winter ascent of Via Barbier up the North Face of Cima Grande di Lavaredo. This difficult climb was established in summer 1989 by the Czech brothers Miroslav Coubal and...

This spring a team of Sherpas will attempt to beat the Everest speed record and the total number of individual ascents. The group, led by 16 times summiter Apa Sherpa and speed record holder Lhakpa Gelu Sherpa, aims to promoted the Sherpa culture and raise funds for Sherpa children.