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The Ski Mountaineering World Cup 2021/2022 started in Ponte di Legno, Italy yesterday and the Sprint event race won by Arno Lietha from Switzerland and Emily Harrop from France.

The third behind the scenes video of Adam Ondra and his preparation of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games. Brutal training is important, but not the only variable.

The Aosta Valley Climbing Club has announced that the siblings from Courmayeur Luca and Martina Blanchet have won the Tiro Leader 2021 competition. The event at the crag La città di Uruk crag in Val Sapin, Italy, involved freeing two difficult sport climbs.

Watch Jakob Schubert climb both King Capella and La Capella at Siurana in Spain

On 17 August 2020 Pete Whittaker made a free solo of the 800m Renshaw/Foulkes route on Kjerag in Norway. The climb features in this year’s Brit Rock Film Tour and the British rock climber has now released footage explaining how the ascent was filmed.

The video portrait of Catalan mountaineer Silvia Vidal who was awarded a Special Mention at the Piolets d'Or 2021 for her outstanding contribution to solo big wall climbing over the last two decades.

The second video of British rock climber James Pearson repeating Harder Faster at Black Rocks in the Peak District, UK.

Japanese rock climber Ryuichi Murai has made the first ascent of his Launch Pad Project at Mizugaki in Japan, grading his short and intense line 8C+ and calling it Floatin.

Austrian climber Jakob Schubert has made the third ascent of King Capella 9b at Siurana in Spain. To end his day in style he repeated La Capella nearby, suggesting 9a+.

The second in a four-part series of Adam Ondra and his journey towards the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games. In this episode the Czech climber comes to term with his biggest challenge of all: speed climbing.

The video portrait of Lynn Hill, one of the greatest and most influential rock climbers of all times.

An excerpt from the award-winning film 'Valley Uprising' that documents one of the most legendary moments in Yosemite climbing history: the 1977 drug plane crash.

On 05/12/2021 Greg Boswell, Hamish Frost and Graham McGrath have established 'Take Me Back To The Desert', a completely new winter line on Beinn Eighe in Scotland.

Watch Alexander Megos make the first repeat of the 9b sports climb Furia De Jabali at at Siurana in Spain.

During a climbing trip to the UK, Belgium’s Siebe Vanhee repeated a flurry of hard gritstone trad climbs including Parthian Shot E9, End of the Affair E8 and Gaia E8.

US photographer Will Saunders has been crowned overall winner of the Red Bull Illume Image Quest 2021 with his photograph of a climber falling at Indian Creek, USA. Italian photographer Thomas Monsorno won the Innovation by EyeEm category with his photo of Dani Arnold on Lake Baikal in Siberia. Federico...