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The Rock Master Festival 2012 kicks off on 25 August. This weekend starts with Rock Junior, followed by Rock Master Lead and Boulder, the Speed World Cup, the Paraclimbing Cup and Arco Rock Legends. Nine intense days climbing and outdoors in the Garda Trentino region, with sport climbing champions and...

English climber Hazel Findlay has visited the Italian crag Cadarese where she repeated, amongst others, the famous route The Doors.

Mario Brovia introduces Wonderland, the new trad crag close to Oncino (Cuneo), Piemonte, Italy

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

Video of Heiko Queitsch climbing Magnet and other famous routes in the Frankenjura greenpoint, without bolts and with trad gear.

Video of the trad climbing meeting Tradannot at Annot in France.

Big news comes from the fresh Dinorwig slate quarries in Wales where British climber James McHaffie has freed an old project which over the years had come to be known as The Meltdown project.

At Stennis Ford in Pembroke, Wales, Charlie Woodburn has made the first ascent of Something's Burning E9 7a.

On 26/06/2012 Simon Gietl and his brother Manuel completed Agoge (VIII/VIII+,400m), a new rock climbing up Cima Scotoni in the Italian Dolomites.

The first three short videos to learn the art of climbing cracks, a useful tutorial which examines everything from finger cracks to how to tape up

At the end of April American climber Cody Roth made the first trad ascent of Mainliner at Las Conchas the Jemez Mountains, New Mexico, USA. At 5.14a/b R (8b+/8c) this checks in as one of the harder trad pitches in North America.

Sergey Nefedov and partners have freed a number of old routes up Mount Morcheka in the Crimea mountain range in the Ukraine.

In May Hansjörg Auer from Austria on-sighted the famous route Strawberries first ascended by Ron Fawcett in 1980 at Tremadog in Wales. In more than 30 years this trad climb has only been on-sighted by Stefan Glowacz and Jorg Verhoeven.

Michele Caminati has made the first ascent of Il Dado è tratto!, a new trad climb graded E7 6c at Lagoni, Italy.

On 18-19 May 2012 Alex Honnold amd Tommy Caldwell became the first climbers to ascend El Capitan, Half Dome and Mount Watkins in Yosemite in less than 24 hours.

On 19 May the fourth stage of the Salewa RockShow 2012 at the Topo Pazzo Climbing House at Verres (Valle d'Aosta, Italy).