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52-year-old climber Alfredo Webber has made his dream com true by repeating Pure Dreaming, the 9a he bolted a few years ago at Massone above Arco, Italy.

French rock climber Patrick Edlinger is the protagonist of the second episode of the La Sportiva Climbing Sparkling Moments.

The film WoGü by Mathieu Rivoire, featuring Nina Caprez and Cédric Lachat on the legendary Beat Kammerlander multipitch WoGü in the Rätikon in Switzerland.

In the run-up to the Tokyo Olympics, La Sportiva launches Climbing Sparkling Moments, the first weekly storytelling podcast that talks about the game-changer moments of the history of climbing. Episode #1 features the very first international sport climbing competition in Bardonecchia in 1985, and the famous splits carried out by...

The second stage of the Lead World Cup 2021 is currently being held at Villars in Switzerland. The Semifinals take place at 10:00 today, and are followed by the Finals at 20:00. The second stage of the Speed World Cup was won last night by Ekaterina Barashchu and Veddriq Leonardo.

Watch Marco and Andrea Zanone attempting Terminator, the famous sport climb freed by Manolo at Totoga in 1985 in the first episode of Lines Of Legends directed by Yuri Palma.

The video of Adam Ondra making the historic world’s first flash of a 9a+ sport climb, Super Crackinette at Saint Léger du Ventoux in France climbed in early 2018.

The video of Belgian climber Siebe Vanhee repeating the multi-pitch climb Orbayu (8c/500m) on Picu Urriellu (Naranjo De Bulnes) in the Picos de Europa National Park in Spain.

Mountain guide Daniel Rogger introduces the five best crags in Höhlensteintal / Valle di Landro in the Dolomites, ideally suited for the Dolorock Climbing Festival scheduled to take place in July: Landro Classico, Scheeweg / Franchi, Stube and Balkonien, Grotte di Landro and the Militare Alpini crag

British rock climber Hazel Findlay has repeated Muy Caliente!, the extremely difficult trad climb at Stennis Ford, Pembroke, Wales.

The Real Thing celebrates its 25th anniversary. Featuring Ben Moon, Jerry Moffatt, Sean Myles, Kurt Albert and Marc Le Menestrel, this was the first feature length bouldering movie. Ben Moon shares his vision 25 years on.

The video of Marco Sappa climbing Greenspit, the difficult roof crack freed by Didier Berthod in Valle Orco, Italy, in 2005.

Three questions to Italian athlete Stefano Ghisolfi regarding Bibliographie, the second 9c in the world freed in 2020 up at Céüse in France by Alex Megos.

The video of Daniel Woods making the first ascent of Return of the Sleepwalker at Red Rocks, USA and currently only the second boulder problem in the world graded 9A.

These are the final days for the free Vibram customization of your climbing shoes with the new Vibram XS Eco compound, made with 20% of processing offcuts. Register on the Vibram Testerplace platform until 25 June; climbers will receive free resoling and become ‘testers’ of the new climbing rubber.

Belgian rock climbers Sébastien Berthe and Siebe Vanhee have made a ground-up free ascent of the 20-pitch (550m) test-piece ‘Fly on the Staldenfluh in the Lauterbrunnen Valley in Switzerland.