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26/01/2009 - Competitions
Ice World Cup 2009: Markus Bendler and Angelika Rainer win in Saas Fee Markus Bendler from Austria and Angelika Rainer from Italy won the Ice Climbng World Championship and the second stage of the Ice Climbing World Cup, held in Switzerland's Saas Fee last weekend. Russian athletes Maria Tolokonina and Pavel Gulyaev doubled their Daone success and won the Speed event.

23/01/2009 - Interviews
Ueli Steck interview after Matterhorn solo in less than 2 hours Interview with Ueli Steck from Switzerland after his 13 January speed climb of the Matterhorn in a record 1 hour 56 minutes via the Schmidt route.

19/01/2009 - Competitions
Ice World Cup 2009: Bendler and Tolokonina win the Ice Master in Daone On 18/01/09 Markus Bendler from Austria and Maria Tolokonina from Russia won the 8th Ice Master in Valle di Daone, valid as the first stage of the Difficulty Ice Climbing World Cup 2009. Maria Tolokonina also won the Speed event together with teammate Pavel Gulyaev.

08/01/2009 - Alpinism
La sor blanche, new Dolomites mixed route by Riegler brothers On 26 December 2008 the brothers Florian and Martin Riegler mande the first ascent of 'Sorella bianca“ (M9 WI6-), a new drytooling and mixed route in Val Lunga (Val Gardena, Dolomites, Italy).

02/01/2009 - Snow Ski-skimountaineering
Off piste skiing Ponte di Legno - Tonale, Italy The Adamello Ski resort is one of the most famous ski resorts in Italy for off-piste skiing. Local Mountain Guide Cain Olsen introduces the classic descents.

11/12/2008 - Alpinism
Baffin Island BASE jump Melissa Andrezjewski and Chris McNamara BASE jump off Kiguti, Sam Ford Fjord, Baffin Island.

10/12/2008 - Climbing
Santa Linya action for Ramon Julian Puigblanque At Santa Linya, Spain, Ramon Julian Puigblanque makes the first ascent of Open your mind Directa and climbs La Fabelita 9a and La novena Enmienda 9a in a day

07/12/2008 - Alpinism
Cerro Torre Ragni route for Bernasconi and Salini On 2 December the Italians Matteo Bernasconi and Fabio Salini carried out a fast ascent of the Via dei Ragni on the West Face of Cerro Torre, Patagonia. This route was also climbed the previous day by Rolando Garibotti and Co.

01/12/2008 - Alpinism
Simone Moro, Denis Urubko and the Makalu winter project At the end of December Simone Moro from Italy and Denis Urubko from Kazakhistan will attempt the first winter ascent of Makalu 8463m (Himalaya, Nepal), the fifth highest mountain in the world.

11/11/2008 - Climbing
Bouldering World Cup 2008 and Speed: Fischhuber, Stöhr, Vaytsekhovsky and Ropek victorious in Moscow 02/11/08. Rustam Gelmanov and Katharina Saurwein won the seventh and last stage of the Bouldering World Cup 2008 in Moscow at the start of November. Kilian Fischhuber and Anna Stöhr won the overall World Cup, while Evgeny Vaytsekhovsky and Edyta Ropek won the Speed World Cup 2008.

03/11/2008 - Book-press
On sight by Alastair Lee Filmmaker Alastair Lee gives exclusive insight into his latest climbing film, On sight, which examines the unpredictable, exciting and at times dangerous game of on-sighting trad routes, regardless of the grade of the climb.

30/10/2008 - Interviews
Alexander Huber interview Interview with German climber Alexander Huber, one of the world's most important sport climbers and mountaineers.

27/10/2008 - Climbing
Tofana di Rozes new routes, Dolomites In summer 2007 Marco Sterni, Mauro Kraus, Marco Giuffrida and Serena Bonin carried out the first ascent of 'Quel calcare nell'anima' (380m, 6c, 6b obl.) on the West Face of Tofana di Rozes (Dolomites). In summer 2008 Sterni and Mauro Florit made the first ascent of the nearby 'Mai molar!...

27/10/2008 - Book-press
Alpinist Magazine suspends operations The American Alpinist magazine has suspended operations due to the world financial crisis.

13/10/2008 - Climbing
Rock climbing at Yangshuo, China With Moon Hill, The White Mountain and 30 other crags, Yangshuo is one of the most important and interesting areas for rock climbing in China.

22/08/2008 - Climbing
Rock Master plus Rock Legends equals Arco and the world climbing champions The programme, athletes and all the news in the run up to the 22nd Rock Master and the 3rd edition of the Arco Rock Legends scheduled for 5 - 7 September 2008 in Arco, Italy.
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