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The alpinists Hervé Barmasse and Emilio Previtali will receive the Adventure Awards 2014. The prizes will be awarded on 25 July, 2014 in Livigno, Italy, during the second edition of the Adventure Awards Days that place from 22 to 27 July 2014.

Austrian climber Beat Kammerlander has made the first ascent of Drei Siebe at the Bürser Platte, Vorarlberg, Austria.

Ang Tshering Sherpa, President Nepal Mountaineering Association, reports about recent meetings and decisions regarding climbing Everest and Nepal's mountains in general.

Finnish boulderer Nalle Hukkataival has repeated Silbergeier (8b/8b+, 240m) in the Rätikon, Switzerland.

At the start of June the alpinists Marco Erbetta, Enrico Rosso and Father Antonio Zavattarelli made un unsuccessful attempt of the stunning West Ridge of Illimani, Cordillera Real, Andes.

German climber Markus Bock has made the first ascent of Becoming 9a+ in the Frankenjura.

On 1 June, Mauro Dell'Antonia, the talented climber from Venice, Italy, climbed 'Mai più colla' at Punta della Croce, Rocca Pendice (Euganean Hills, Padua, Italy) for the first time without the hold that snapped off a few years ago. The proposed grade is 8c. This brief and intense series of...

At Massone in Arco (Italy), Austrian climber Angela Eiter and South Korea's Jain Kim have both repeated Reini's Vibes 8c/+.

Melloblocco 2014 interpreted by Michele Caminati who, for once, took off his climbing shoes to present us with his vision of the great international climbing meeting in Val Masino - Val di Mello.

Beautiful Val Mora, on the border between Italys' Valtellina and Switzerland's Engadin and the story of the first ascent of two rock climbs, Gli svizzeri di qua and Mutandenbaum, by Martino Quintavalla

Italian climber Gabriele Moroni has made the first repeat of Back Road 9a at Rovereto (Arco).

On 3 June 2014 Swiss climber Nina Caprez redpointed her first 8c+, Hélix au pays des merveilles at Pic Saint Loup, France.

Following the Australian pioneers Glenn Singleman and Nic Feteris: the story of the Great Trango Tower BASE jump carried out by Andrey Lebedev and Vladimir Murzaev on 10 August 2013.

A climbing trip off the beaten path in Greece, between Epirus and Thessaly.

At Gravere (Val di Susa, Italy) Stefano Ghisolfi has made the first ascent of TCT , a 9a dedicated to Tito Claudio Traversa.

From 1 - 4 May 2014 Ryan Jennings and Kevin Cooper made the first ascent of Stairway to Heaven up the North Face of Mt. Johnson, Ruth Gorge, Alaska