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French climber Caroline Ciavaldini has repeated Voie petit, the 450m 8b multi-pitch climb on Grand Capucin (3838m), Mont Blanc first ascended in 1997 by Arnaud petit, Stephanie Bodet, Pascal Gaudin and Jean-Paul petit and freed in 2005 by Alexander Huber.

Susi Knabl, the highly regarded member of the international climbing community, passed away yesterday morning after a long battle against cancer.

Stefano Ghisolfi talks about his return to Céüse in France a year after having repeated Biographie. It's a chance to remember those moments with a video that documents his ascent of this legendary sports climb freed by Chris Sharma in 2001.

The 2017 ISMF World Cup season contains 11 races in 5 different countries including, for the first time, Turkey. The traditional Grande Course competitions will no longer be part of the World Cup circuit.

On Sunday, June 19 the third stage of the Italian Lead Cup was won o Villa San Angelo, L'Aquila, by Claudia Ghisolfi and Alberto Gotta.

Russian climber Rustam Gelmanov climbs Hypnotized Minds, the boulder problem put up by Daniel Woods in the Rocky Mountain National Park graded 8C/8C+.

The sixth stage of the Bouldering World Cup 2016 is currently taking place in Vail, USA from 10 - 11 June 2016.

Interview with German climber Alexander Megos who on 31/05/2016 repeated Hubble, the climb first ascended by Ben Moon in 1990 at Raven Tor, UK, hailed as the world’s first 8c+.

Italian sports climber Stefano Ghisolfi has repeated Le Cadre Nouvelle, the route freed at Ceuse in France in 2010 by Adam Ondra graded 9a.

At Ceuse in France Jon Cardwell has redpointed Biographie, the famous 9a+ sports climb freed by Chris Sharma in 2001.

Registration is now online for Rock Junior 2016, the youth climbing festival that will take place from 2 - 4 September 2016 at Arco (Lago di Garda – Trentino) and which will end the week of great climbing at the Rock Master Festival.

At Tetto di Sarre in Valle d'Aosta, Italy, French sports climber Julia Chanourdie has climbed 'L'avaro', her first 8c+ sports climb.

The fifth stage of the Bouldering World Cup 2016 was won last night in Innsbruck, Austria, by Shauna Coxsey and Jongwon Chon. Janja Garnbret and Tomoa Narasaki won silver, Miho Nonaka and Sean McColl bronze.

In April 2016 Jonas Wallin from Sweden and David Kaszlikowski from Poland established Fever Dreams (7c max, 9 pitches) on the previously unclimbed Mumbar cliff in the Dragon Horns massif on Tioman island, Malaysia. To access the mountain team had to find and cut new trail in the jungle.

On 15/05/2016 Italian sports climber Silvio Reffo repeated Goldrake, the 9a+ sports climb at Cornalba, Italy.

The video documenting elite American climber Alex Puccio’s rigorous rehabilitation after injuring herself in a climbing competition in 2015.