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The third and final dispatch of the Brenta Base Camp, the small 'expedition' into the the heart of the Brenta Dolomites during the Discover Brenta Dolomites event to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the first traverse of this massif. The report by Alessandro Beber and Matteo Faletti about the first...

At Pembroke in Wales Caroline Ciavaldini has climbed Mercia Wall E8, Yuji Hirayama has climbed The Big Issue E9 while James Pearson has made a flash ascent of Something's Burning E9. Caroline Ciavaldini talks us through these three difficult trad climbs.

All the results of day 2 of Rock Junior 2014 that took place at Arco (Garda Trentino, Italy) on 4 - 5 September 2014.

Boris Cujic introduces the Paklenica Gorge, the undisputed reference point for rock climbing in Croatia.

On Thursday 4 and Friday 5 September 2014 at Arco (Garda Trentino) it’s time for the Rock Junior, the great international youth climbing festival for the Lead and Speed disciplines. On Saturday and Sunday the festival continues with the IFSC European Youth Boulder Championships. More than 250 young climbers are...

The videos of the ninth edition of Arco Rock Legends that took place on Friday 29/08/2014. The climbers for the La Sportiva Competition Award Urko Carmona Barandiaran (winner), Sachi Amma and Dmitrii Sharafutdinov, while the climbers in the Salewa Rock Award are Muriel Sarkany (winner), Alexander Megos and Adam Ondra....

Sachi Amma and Magdalena Röck win the Rock Master Lead 2014. Francesco Vettorata a fantastic second.

Jakob Schubert and Hélène Janicot place first in the onsight round. Schubert is joined in the Final by McColl, Amma, Skofic, Chernikov, Vettorata, Kryukov, Primozic and Timmermans. In the women's Janicot is joined by Röck, Markovic, Durif, Lavarda, Malamid, Becerra, Fakhritdinova and Claudia Ghisolfi. The final begins this evening at...

On Friday 29/08/2014 during the 9th edition of Arco Rock Legends the Salewa Rock Award was won by Muriel Sarkany while Urko Carmona Barandiaran won the La Sportiva Competition Award. The Climbing Ambassador by Aquafil award was assigned to the Italian writer, sculptor, alpinist and rock climber Mauro Corona.

Austrian climber Angela Eiter has repeated Fragile steps FB8B at Rocklands, South Africa

At Entraygues in France Stefano Ghisolfi has climbed Le moustache qui fâche, his first 9a+.

The report by Alessandro Beber and Alessandro Baù about two new rock climbs on Punta Jolanda: Prua degli Onironauti (250m, VII) and Badanti al seguito (220m, VIII), established on 04/08/2014 together with Matteo Baù, Fabrizio Dellai, Matteo Faletti and Claudia Mario. The second report of the Brenta Base Camp, the...

Italian climber Silvio Reffo talks about his climbing trip to Flatanger and the Hanshelleren cave in Norway, where he managed to repeat Odin's eye, 8c+.

Jon Walsh and Michelle Kadatz have made the first ascent of Electric Funeral (300m, 5.11+) on the Wide Awake Tower, Bugaboos, Canada.

climbers such as Sean McColl, Sasha DiGiulian and Edu Marin have accepted the Ice Bucket Challenge, the campaign aimed at raising awareness and funds for Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS)

The sports crag Würzjoch - Passo delle Erbe, at the base of the gigantic Peitlerkofel (Sass de Putia) in the Dolomites. Part 5 of the series 'Crags for each season' published together with Vertical-Life.info.