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The American queen of bouldering Alex Puccio has won this year’s ladies-only boulder competition Stockholm, confirming her fitness for the Boulder World Cup. Matilda Söderlund placed second, Mina Leslie-Wujastyk third.

From 5 - 7 April Ben Erdmann, Jess Roskelley and Kristoffer Szilas made the first ascent of Hypa Zypa Couloir (ED: AI5+, M6+, 5.10R, A3, 1100m) up the East Face of the Citadel in the Kichatna Range, Alaska.

The second stage of the Bouldering World Cup 2013 was won on Saturday 6 April at Millau in France by the Austrians Kilian Fischhuber and Anna Stöhr.

The prize for the best climb of 2012 was awarded at the end of an exciting ceremony in Courmayeur last night to all six nominated ascents. The Piolet d'Or Walter Bonatti Lifetime Achievement Award was given to Austria's Kurt Diemberger.

Interview with American climber Chris Sharma after his repeat of La Dura Dura 9b+ at Oliana, Spain.

American climber Chris Sharma has made the first repeat of La Dura Dura 9b+ at Oliana, Spain.

The second edition of the International Master Course in Mountain Medicine will start on May 2013 to end on June 2014 and will be held at the Italian Insubria University in collaboration with the University of Turin and the Bolzano EURAC. The introduction by Doctor Luigi Festi.

Video of Steph Davis on the rock climb Glad to be trad 5.13- first ascended by Steve Hong in the Mineral Canyon, USA.

Austrian Felix Baumgartner was awarded the National Geographic Adventurer of the Year for his historic free fall from space on 14 October 2012.

The video clip of some of the recent works of American alpinist and filmmaker Renan Ozturk.

In February 2013 the Italian climbers Lorenzo Lanfranchi, Mirko Masè, Simone Pedeferri, Mattia Tisi and Andrea Zaffaroni made the first ascent of Perdidos en el Mundo (870m, 23 pitches, 7b+, 6c+ obligatory) up the north face of Cerro Walwalun in Cochamo valley in Patagonia, Chile. The story by Mirko Masè.

They come from France, Britain, Russia, the United States and Japan and all made beautiful and difficult climb up highest mountains in the world: the candidates for the 21st edition of the Piolet d'Or, the most prestigious international mountaineering award which will take place from 3 to 6 April 2013...

On 5 March 2013 Maciej Berbeka, Adam Bielecki, Tomasz Kowalski and Artur Malek made the historic first winter of Broad Peak. The Polish mountaineers are members of an expedition led by the living monument to alpinism Krzysztof Wielicki. With this latest success a staggering 9 first winter ascents of the...

On 21/02/2013 Colin Haley and Sarah Hart made the first ascent of the West Face of Mojon Rojo via their El Zorro (700m, 5.10, A1).

The video filmed by Joe Kinder about Dani Andrada, Chris Sharma, Daila Ojeda, Sasha DiGiulian, Nina Caprez climbing at Santa Linya in Spain.

Alex Honnold and Josh McCoy have made the first free ascent of Mi Regalo Favorito at El Portreo Chico in Mexico.