The news

The new guidebook published by Versante Sud: Bouldering in Valtellina Valchiavenna Val Masino Val di Mello Val Malenco by Andrea Pavan.

On December 5 the warehouse in which Alpinist housed its inventory burnt to the ground. The magazine has now launched an appeal to its readers.

Hermann Erber and Kirsten Buchmann pay homage to Harald Berger with their picture book "Equilibrium". All proceeds will go to the Salzburg Mountain Guides Association which administers a fund to deal with similar emergency situations.

The fourth edition of UP - European Climbing report edited by Maurizio Oviglia and Eugenio Pinotti and published by Versante Sud will go to press on 20 March.

The American Alpine Journal is available online as of today.

Riccarda de Eccher's exhibition "Watercolor, Pastel"is on show in Cortina at the "libreria Sovilla" until 15 April 2007

The American Alpinist Magazine announced today that it has received Print Magazine’s 2004 Regional Design Award for the cover of Alpinist 6

The Italian boulderer Marzio Nardi has recently produced a 34 minute video that includes some of Italy’s most famous bouldering areas and hardest climbers. Fast and furious, it roams strongholds such as the Cubo and Switzerland's Chironico.

"Cresciano boulder" and "Pietra di Luna", Sardinia have recently been published

The 19th edition of the International Festival of Mountain Films "Vila de Torelló" is currently being held in Torelló, Spain.

A new posthumous collection of Anatoli Boukreev’s writings entitled “Above the clouds - The Diaries of a High-Altitude Mountaineer” has recently been published.

FREE.RIDER, the magazine dedicated to freeride and all its facets has just hit the shops in Italy.

Helly Hansen’s half-yearly magazine has now matured to its fourth edition, and this can be received free by filling out the order form on www.hellyhansen.com

www.tibet.net, the official website of the Tibetan Government-in-Exile

The long awaited new guidebook to Finale, one of Italy's and Europe's finest climbing areas

Alp Millennium 3 Experimenta celebrates this year's outstanding contemporary mountain photography