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One of the most ancient cities in the world, with a history that spans 28 centuries, is about to award two Olympic tickets in the fastest medal event of the Paris 2024 programme.

Remembering Ermanno Salvaterra, the great Italian mountaineer of the Brenta Dolomites and Patagonia, who perished yesterday while climbing on Campanile Alto di Brenta.

The Olympic Combined Boulder & Lead Semifinals take place in Bern, Switzerland, today. 40 athletes will compete in Boulder and Lead to win the first batch of 10 Olympic quota places for the Olympic Games Paris 2024.

The 2023 Sport Climbing World Championships begin today in Bern, Switzerland. The event will award world titles in Boulder, Lead, speed and Paraclimbing, also distribute the first batch of 10 Olympic quota places for the Olympic Games Paris 2024.

Interview with Nadir Maguet who set a new ascent and descent record on the Grandes Jorasses in the Mont Blanc massif on Monday 10 July 2023. The 29-year-old Italian athlete climbed the Normal Route from Planpincieux (Courmayeur - Val Ferret) to Pointe Walker (4,208m) in 2:17. After a short rest...

On 11 June 2023 Swiss mountaineer Dani Arnold soloed the three ridges on the legendary Salbitschijen in 9 hours, 36 minutes and 55 seconds.

Italian climber Federica Mingolla has repeated Hotel Supramonte, the famous multi-pitch climb in the Gola di Gorropu gorge in Sardinia, established ground-up between 1998 and 1999 by Rolando Larcher and Roberto Vigiani.

The video of the Nicolas Hojac and Adrian Zurbrügg climbing the classic Eiger, Mönch & Jungfrau skyline in 13 hours in July 2022.

On 3 February 2023 in Val Bavona, Ticino, Switzerland, Niccolò Ceria repeated the boulder problem Off the wagon low (8C+)

Marcin Tomaszewski reports about the first ascent of FRAM, a technical 700m climb on Oqatssut Wall on the West coast of Greenland established from 10 - 24 February 2023 with Paweł Hałdaś. This is the first route on the mountain and the first big wall climbed in Greenland in winter.

The Ski Mountaineering World Championships 2022 are currently taking place at Boí Taüll in Spain. Marianna Jagerčíková and Oriol Cardona Coll were crowned speed World Champions.

Between 28 and 29 January 2023 the French alpinists Julien Cruvellier, Nicolas Jean and Benjamin Védrines made the first ascent of 'De l'Or en Barre' a difficult mixed climb on the south face of the Barre des Écrins (4102 m). The mixed climb follows a treacherous couloir, infamous in summer...

Watch Jakob Schubert's uncut ascents of 'Furia de Jabali' (9a+) and 'Last Night' 9a at Siurana, Spain.

The 2023 Ski Mountaineering World Cup took place in Andorra last weekend. The Individual race was won on Saturday by Axelle Gachet-Mollaret and Thibault Anselmet, while Gachet-Mollaret and Rémi Bonnet won the Vertical race on Sunday.

12,330 meters of altitude gain and a 138 km integral traverse, over a period of two days, solo, across the Queyras mountains from Vars to Villard. This, in short, is the ski mountaineering traverse carried out by French mountaineer Benjamin Védrines at the start of the new year.

Chaehyun Seo from South Korea has become the second woman in the world to onsight 8c with her faultless ascent of 'L’Antagonista' at Montsant in Spain.