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The video of the avalanche power cloud in Val Veny, above Courmayeur in the Aosta Valley on the Italian side of Mont Blanc. The powder clouds engulfed skiers, but no injuries were reported.

On 8 January 2026, in Valsavarenche (Aosta Valley, Italy), the mountain guides Niccolò Bruni and Giovanni Ravizza established 'Le Fantôme du Bricolage'. This is a mixed variant of the rarely formed ice climb 'Il fantasma di ghiaccio', first ascended in 1993 by A. Cambiolo, B. Gilardi, X. Iturrate, R. Lale,...

On Tuesday 27 May 2025, eleven rangers from Gran Paradiso National Park and an ARPA valle d'aosta technician ascended the Grand Etrèt Glacier in Valsavarenche to conduct their annual spring snowpack survey.

• Thanks to heavy mid-April snowfalls, the glacial basin remains deeply snow-covered above 2,200 meters elevation.
• The final assessment will...

valle d'aosta, Italy, is to host the unique climbing challenge Tiro Lead. Once again the aim is to free two difficult sport climbs, this time at the new crag Cascata Lo Dard above Ollomont. This year's prize money totals €1,200; the initiative is open to everyone and will last all...

The Italian mountain guide and former ski mountaineering champion Denis Trento perished on Friday at the age of 41 on the north face of Testa del Paramont in valle d'aosta.

On 01/27/2024 François Cazzanelli, Stefano Stradelli and Giuseppe Vidoni made the first ascent of 'La Cascata dell'Arbiére' (100m, WI4) on Becca des Arbiére in the Saint-Barthélemy valley in valle d'aosta.

The Carrel hut on the Matterhorn will be moved to avoid rockfall. The new bivouac will be built a few meters from its current location and should be inaugurated in summer 2024. The cost of demolition and reconstruction is in the regione of two million euros.

The video portrait of Austrian paraclimber Angelino Zeller whose ambitious goal is to climb Sarre 2000 footless. This 8a+ located at Tetto di Sarre in valle d'aosta, Italy, was climbed without feet by Stefano Ghisolfi in 2014.

Measurements carried out by the Gran Paradiso park rangers confirm a loss of surface area equivalent to three football fields.

Italian climber Federica Mingolla has repeated Hotel Supramonte, the famous multi-pitch climb in the Gola di Gorropu gorge in Sardinia, established ground-up between 1998 and 1999 by Rolando Larcher and Roberto Vigiani.

On 31 January 2023 Niccolò Bruni, Marco Farina and Giovanni Ravizza established two 'amazing' mixed climbs on Piccolo San Bernardo (La Thuile, valle d'aosta): 'Tutte le Guide del Presidente' and 'Sento puzza di fuoco'.

Last summer Nadir Maguet climbed Grossglockner, Piz Bernina and Ortles and in doing so set the Fastest Known Time for each mountain. The video portrait of the 28-year-old mountaineer from the Aosta Valley

Italian alpinists Roger Bovard, Marco Camandona, François Cazzanelli, Emrik Favre, Jerome Perruquet and Pietro Picco all summited Nanga Parbat (8126m) yesterday without supplementary oxygen. Cesar Rosales from Peru reached the summit of the ninth highest mountain in the world with the valle d'aosta team.

On the Diamir face of Nanga Parbat the Italian mountaineers François Cazzanelli and Pietro Picco have added a difficult new variation start to the Kinshofer route. Called valle d'aosta Express, the 1400m addition breaches difficulties up to AI 90° M6 85°, and was climbed on 26 June.

French mountain guide Paul Bonhomme has made the first ski descent of Démocralinea on the NE Face of Aiguilles des Lacs (Valpelline, valle d'aosta, Italy).

As a result of the war in the Ukraine, Grivel decided to temporarily stop deliveries to Russia. Published below is the 10/03/2022 press release of the historic valle d'aosta climbing gear company.