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2nd and 3rd day of the Ski Mountaineering World Championships 2013 at Les Ecrins (France) with the Sprint and Individual Cadets and Junior. Italy wins gold thanks to Davide Magnini and Alba De Silvestro!

The 4th stage of the Ice Climbing World Cup 2013 took place in Busteni, Busteni in Romania was won by Park Heeyong and Lucie Hrozova. Angelika Rainer placed 7th but retains the lead of the overall ranking

Yesterday the Ski Mountaineering World Championships 2013 started at Les Ecrins in France with the "Team Race" competition, won by France's William Bon Mardion & Matheo Jacquemoud and by Laetitia Roux & Axelle Mollaret. Silver went to the Italian teams comprised of Matteo Eydallin & Manfred Reichegger and of Gloriana...

From 4 - 6 April 2013 Cortina d'Ampezzo, the pearl of the Dolomites, will host the Freeride Challenge Punta Nera 2013, a three day event dedicated to freeride skiing, ski mountaineering and climbing with the special boulder contest.

The third stage of Ice Climbing World Cup 2013 took place in Italy's Rabenstein and was won once again by Angelika Rainer from Italy and Maxim Tomilov from Russia, two Grivel race department athletes.

The second stage of the Ice Climbing World Cup 2013 was won on 19 January in Saas Fee (Switzerland), after two thrilling finals by the Russians Maxim Tomilov and Maria Tolokonina. Angelika Rainer from Italy placed second.

At Santa Linya in Spain an unstoppable Jakob Schubert sent five 9a routes.

The results of the first stage of the ISMF Scarpa World Cup 2013 which took place last weekend in Valle Aurina (South Tyrol, Italy).

12/01/2013. Cheongsong, South Korea: this is where Italian ice climber Angelika Rainer triumphed once again, becoming Ice Climbing World Champion for the third time in a row after her victories in 2009 and 2011. The men's title was won by Russia's Alexey Tomilov.

An analysis of the youth climbing competition scene and interview with European Lead Tina Johnsen Hafsaas. An article by Franz Schiassi.

Interview with Austrian competition athlete Johanna Ernst, certainly one of the most talented sports climbers in the world.

The Canadian climber Sean McColl crowned his best competition season yet by winning this unique challenge organised by La Sportiva, beating runner-up Dmitry Sharafutdinov by one attempt.

The second "Legends Only" boulder competition, organised by La Sportiva will take place in Sweden's Stockholm today. Those invited to take part are Dmitry Sharafutdinov, Adam Ondra, Sean McColl, Jakob Schubert and Guillaume Glairon Mondet.

19/11/2012. The last stage of the Lead World Cup held last weekend in Kranj, Slovenia, was won by home-athlete Mina Markovic who has now won her second overall World Cup. In the men's event Austria's Jakob Schubert won the Kranj stage while second-placed Sachi Amma from Japan won his first...

At Red River Gorge (USA) Jacopo Larcher has sent his first 9a, while Melissa Le Nevé has redpointed her first 8c+.

Interview by Ellade Ossola with Samuel Anthamatten, the Swiss freerider and alpinist, on the eve of the Evolution Vertical event organized by New Rock and scheduled to take place in Lugano, Switzerland on Friday 9 November.