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Watch Marcello Bombardi making the first ascent of El puma (9a) at Chesod in valle d’aosta, Italy

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...

At Gaby in Italy’s Aosta Valley, Marcello Bombardi and Elias Iagnemma have both repeated Ziqqurat, the 8C boulder established in 2015 by Niccolò Ceria.

This summer and autumn the picturesque Val Sapin above Courmayeur in Italy’s Aosta Valley hosts the third edition of Tiro Leader, a climbing challenge to free two difficult sport climbs at the historic crag La città di Uruk. The first...

A new contest has been launched at the crag Barliard in the Ollomont valley in valle d’aosta, Italy where two sport climbs have been bolted and await a first ascent. The first male and female climbers to free the routes...

Marco Sappa reports about the first ascent of La Fessura di Gianfri, a difficult trad crack climb at the historic crag Nid Des Hirondelles in Valgrisenche, valle d’aosta, Italy. The route is dedicated to his father Gianfranco Sappa, a Courmayeur...

On 26 November 2019 Filip Babicz completed Ade Integrale, a testing dry tooling route in the Gran Borna cave close to La Thuile in Valle d'Aosta, Italy. The Pole suggests D15+. The route is completely natural but, being total dry,...

Anomalous spring conditions across the Alps were exploited to the max by Denis Trento who managed to ski almost every day up in the valle d’aosta mountains. While “seeking the best conditions rather than famous descents”, Trento’s mountaineering always starts...

At Tetto di Sarre in valle d’aosta, Italy, Giuseppe Pippo Nolasco has repeated Ground Zero, his first 9a sports climb.

The latest climbs of Italian boulderer Lorenzo Puri from Albarracin to Champorcher and Sustenpass.

The report by Matteo Giglio who teamed up with François Cazzanelli to make the first ascent of a mixed climb called Burian (150 m, WI5 R M8) up the Paretone di Chevril face in Valle di Cogne, valle d’aosta, Italy.

On the Singlin rock face in Valtournenche (valle d’aosta, Italy) François Cazzanelli and Nicolò Buongiorno have established a new mixed climb called Il Sole di Mezzogiorno (150m, M5, 6a)

The video di Gabriele Moroni making the first repeat of Ziqqurat, an 8C boulder problem located at Gaby in valle d’aosta and freed in 2015 by Niccolò Ceria.

French rock climber Julia Chanourdie has repeated Ground Zero at Tetto di Sarre in valle d’aosta, Italy, freed in 2002 by Alberto Gnerro and graded 9a.

On 16 and 17 February 2017 Mauro Mabboni and Patrick Gasperini made the first ascent of Old Boy, a difficult new mixed climb above Lillaz close to Cogne in valle d’aosta, Italy.

A thought for Mauro Franceschini, Antonella Gallo, Antonella Gerini and Fabrizio Recchia who yesterday, Thursday 16/02/17, lost their lives when the icefall Bonne année collapsed in Valle di Gressoney, valle d’aosta, Italy.