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58 ascents carried out in 2014 have been included in the "Big list" of the Piolets d'Or, the most prestigious mountaineering award that will be celebrated between 9 - 12 April, 2015 at Courmayeur and Chamonix, at the foot of Mont Blanc.

Interview with Italian alpinists Simone Moro and Tamara Lunger, currently at Manaslu base camp where they are hoping to make the first winter enchainment of the Main summit (8163m) with the East Pinnacle (7992m).

An appeal has been launched to safeguard the sport climbing at Geyikbayiri, the most important climbing area in Turkey, following the release of a mining exploration permit.

On 10 February 2015 British alpinist Tom Ballard climbed the Schmidt route up the North Face of the Matterhorn in 2 hours and 59 minutes. After Cima Grande di Lavaredo in the Dolomites and Pizzo Badile, this is another climb in his project Starlight and Storm that aims to climb...

32 years after Renato Casarotto's ascent of Frêney trilogy, also known as the Super Integral di Peutèrey (Mont Blanc), Ivo Ferrari remembers the great Italian alpinist.

The video of American climber Alex Puccio and her repeat of the boulder problem Jade 8B+/V14, Rocky mountains National Park, USA.

Swiss alpinist Michael Lerjen-Demjen introduces the climbing at Los Arenales close to Mendoza in Argentina. Perfect granite and an unlimited potential at an altitude of 3000m.

Interview with Marco Zamberlan after his ascent of Ama Dablam (6856m) in Nepal, carried out to celebrate the 85th anniversary of the Italian shoe maker.

Video protrait of Austrian alpinist Hansjörg Auer.

At Sappada, Northern Italy, the local mountain guides have replaced the abseil belays of more than 50 ice falls. The report by Pierpaolo Pedrini

As a result of an avalanche triggered by French rider Julien Lopez, who fortunately escaped unharmed, the second leg of the Swatch Freeride World Tour by The North Face at Fieberbrunn in Austria has been suspended.

The Andorra Ultra Trail Vallnord will take place from 25 - 28 June 2015. Four days with 4 important mountain running competitions: Ronda dels Cims (170 km, 13,500 m D+), Mitic (112 km, 9,700 m D+), Celestrail (83 km, 5,000 m D+) and Marató dels Cims (42,5 km, 3,000 m...

From 21 to 25 January 2015, Turkey’s first-ever international ice climbing festival took place at Erzurum (Anatolia). Participants included Anna Torretta (a Mountain guide from Courmayeur) and Spain’s Cecilia Buil who made the first ascents of two beautiful icefalls: Anatolia Pillar, WI6 100m, in Cevizli valley and Sugar couloir (seker...

The video of the 2015 edition of the winter bouldering festival held in the Krasnoyarsk Stolby Nature Reserve, Siberia, Russia.

From 9 - 12 April 2015 Courmayeur and Chamonix become the world’s mountaineering capital with the 23 edition of the Piolets d’Or, the most prestigious mountaineering award. Britain’s Sir Chris Bonington will receive the Piolet d'Or Carrière - the Lifetime Achievement Award.

The bouldering video of Jorg Verhoeven and Katharina Saurwein at Chaos Canyon, Rocky mountains National Park, Colorado, USA.