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Angela Eiter from austria and Ramón Julian Puigblanque from Spain have won their 6th Rock Master Lead. No one ever before has done better than them. Christine Schranz and Jacob Schubert from austria placed second, Evgenia Malamid from Russia and Jorg Verhoeven from Holland placed third. Italy's Jenny Lavarda finished...

Leonardo Gontero raced to the historic first-ever Italian victory in the Speed World Cup during the Arco Rock Master di Arco. Russia's Alina Gaydamakina won the women's event.

Angela Eiter and Ramon Julien Puigblanque qualify for the Rock Master Lead with today's only two tops. All the best qualify for the Lead final including Adam Ondra (2°), Jakob Schubert (3°), Jorg Verhoeven (4à). Italian hopes high for Jenny Lavarda (3a) and Silvio Reffo (7°).

On Friday 31/08/2012 during the VII edition of the Arco Rock Legends Sasha DiGiulian won the Salewa Rock Award, while Anna Stöhr received the La Sportiva Competition Award. Stefan Glowacz was awarded with the Climbing Ambassador by Aquafil prize.

Rustam Gelmanov from Russia and Anna Stöhr from austria win the Bouldering World Cup 2012, Sean McColl and Akiyo Noguchi take silver, Jakob Schubert and Shauna Coxsey bronze. The final stage, which took place in Munich yesterday, was won by Akiyo Noguchi and Dmitrii Sharafutdinov.

The second, decisive day of Rock Junior witnessed great performances in the Under 14 Cup, the verve of young climbers playing in Kid’s Rock and the legendary parent and children Family Rock relay race. A true festival for the 500 young climbers (aged 5 – 13) and the best way...

Austrian climber Hansjörg Auer has added a direct finish to Goldrausch, Roßkopf, Rofangebirge, austria

Florian Wenter introduces the bouldering area Blaueisgletscher, more than 100 boulders from Fb5 to Fb8B located at 1800m in Germany.

Stephan Siegrist, Thomas Senf and Ralf Weber have successfully climbed Cerro Stanhardt, the northermost summit of Patagonia's Cerro Torre group, in winter and in alpine style via the classic Exocet route.

Austrian climber Barbara Zangerl has made the first female ascent of End of silence 8b+, Feuerhorn.

On Saturday 11 August the third stage of the Lead World Cup 2012 was won by Jorg Verhoeven and Momoka Oda.

Barbara and Sabine Bacher have redpointed their first 8c, Schwarzer Schwan at the crag Armelenwand, Ötztal, austria.

On 30 July at 16:00 David Lama, Peter Ortner and Corey Rich reached the summit of Trango Tower in the Karakorum via the route Eternal Flame.

On Saturday 27 July 2012 Jospeh Mayerl, the legendary alpinist from Tyrol, austria, died aged 75 which climbing in the Lienzer Dolomites.

The nominations for the VII edition of the Arco Rock Legends, the sport climbing Oscars which will take place on 31 July 2012 during the Rock Master Festival 2012 and award the prestigious Salewa Rock Award and La Sportiva Competition Award. Those nominated for the Salewa Rock Award are: Sasha...

The second stage of the Lead World Cup 2012 was won on Saturday 21 July by Sachi Amma from Japan and Hélène Janicot from France.