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Austrian photographer Josef Stefan has won the People’s Choice Award of the Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2026 for his photograph of a playful lynx in Ciudad Real, Spain. A 85,917 votes were cast.

France's Oriane Bertone and Scotland’s Max Milne won the first-ever Pro Climbing League event in london last night. Janja Garnbret and Colin Duffy placed second. Annie Sanders and Tomoa Narasaki placed third, having beaten Erin McNeice and Mejdi Schalck respectively in the exciting head-to-head format on identical boulders.

The first-ever Pro Climbing League competition will take place in london this evening at 19:30 GMT/20:30 CET and screened live on Red Bull TV. The 16 climbers competing on identical boulders are: Oriane Bertone, Jenny Buckley, Lucia Dörffel, Janja Garnbret, Anon Matsufuji, Erin McNeice, Camilla Moroni, Annie Sanders and Colin...

The online, global voting campaign for the Wildlife Photographer of the Year People’s Choice Award is now online. 24 images have been shortlisted from over 60,000 entries. Voting closes on Wednesday 18 March, the winning photograph and the four runners-up will be announced on Wednesday 25 March

The Pro Climbing League makes its competition debut on 28 February 2026 in london (UK) with an exciting head-to-head format of sixteen climbers (eight men and eight women) competing on identical boulders.

South African wildlife photographer Wim van den Heever has been announced as Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2025 for his ghostly shot of rare hyena in abandoned mining town entitled ‘Ghost Town Visitor’. Andrea Dominizi from Italy won the Young Wildlife Photographer of the Year award for his image ‘After...

Wildlife Photographer of the Year, the world’s leading and most prestigious nature photography competition and touring exhibition, has revealed a first-look of highly commended images awarded in the 61st edition. Selected from a record-breaking 60,636 entries, the winners will be announced on Tuesday 14 October 2025.

The 60th edition of Wildlife Photographer of the Year, the most important award dedicated to nature photography promoted by the Natural History Museum of london, has been won by Shane Gross of Canada for his photo of a mass of western toad tadpoles swimming below lily pads in Cedar Lake.

British mountaineers Mick Fowler and Victor Saunders have made the first ascent of Yawash Sar, a 6,258m peak in Pakistan's Karakoram climbed via the NW Face. Climbing alpine style, the pair summited on 14 September.

On 29 June 2024 the Italian mountaineers Chiara Gusmeroli and Matteo De Zaiacomo made the first ascent of 'Æterna nix' (VIII, 200m) on the NE Face of Pizzo Badile.

The video featuring Jerry Moffatt, Stian Christophersen and Martin Mobråten sharing insights into training for climbing and performing at your best.

Watch Belgian rock climber Siebe Vanhee as his explores the trad climbing on the gritstone crags in the UK, where he manages to to meet up with British climbing legends such as John Dunne, Pete Whittaker, Sam Whittaker, Jim Pope, Franco Cookson, Ben Heason and Johnny Dawes.

Lock Down Rock Up, directed by Nico Hambleton, documents the challenges British climber and paramedic Jerome Mowat faced as a front-line paramedic during the global pandemic and how he used rock climbing as an escape.

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.

As part of his 'From 0 to 0' project, Andrea Lanfri set off from Genoa by bike and climbed to the Capanna Margherita (4554m) on Monte Rosa, before returning to Genoa by bike. The Paralympic athlete and mountaineer from Lucca travelled over 470km by bike and needed just 18 hours...

The Alpine Club has opened its landmark exhibition 'Everest: By Those Who Were There' to the public. The exhibition commemorates 100 years since the first expedition to Mount Everest in 1921, and explores, in intimate detail, the three Alpine Club and Royal Geographical Society expeditions of the 1920s.