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Divine Providence One Push

Published on 20/09/2024 “Often times being the first to do something, the first to imagine it, is what really counts, because let’s say once a perf...

Adventure

“Intégrale 2.0”: a new take on a legend by Damien Tomasi

Published on 06/09/2024 It must be 1 or 2 a.m. and, despite the cold and our only sleeping bag for two, I manage to fall asleep. But I'm regularly ...

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Goulotte Gabarrou-Albinoni 1974-2024 - 50th anniversary

The 50th anniversary of a great classic goulotte in the Mont Blanc range, in the words of one of the protagonists, Patrick Gabarrou. English, Ital...

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CERRO NORA OESTE – ADVENTURE AND DISCOVERY IN PATAGONIA BY LUCA SCHIERA

Published on 27/02/2024 I have always felt like a climber but the world of climbing and mountaineering, with more and more rules and conformism, is...

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Mushin - Being Yasushi Yamanoi

Published on 14/12/2023 “Mushin" is a zen mental state achieved when a person's mind is free from thoughts of anger, fear, or ego during combat or ...

Adventure

THE NOIRE - Climbing in the Shadow of Mont Blanc

Published on 10/8/2023Light and dark, adventure and exploration, friendship and cold … On February 12th and 13th 2023 François Cazzanelli, Emrik Fa...

Climbing

From D15 to 9a by Angelika Rainer

My entry into the world of ice and dry-tooling happened by pure chance. When I was 18 years old, in 2005, after having already been sport climbing ...

Climbing

El Puma 9a - Marcello Bombardi

Published on 31/05/2023 "In the last few years I have freed a couple of these routes, a little bit more isolated, hidden, bolted many years ago. I ...

Climbing

Saxarate Reality - Marco Sappa

Published on 2022/09/29“From a crack climbing point of view it really has nothing to envy to many other great classics I've climbed … Having it her...

Climbing

BEYOND THE ROCK - Climbing in Corsica video series

What is climbing? Let's try to discover it in this series, with a group of strong climbers around Corsica.

Adventure

MATTERHORN Big Wall

Published on 2022/06/13 3 friends and mountaineers, 2 routes linked together according to a visionary project, 1 iconic mountain in the heart of th...

Climbing

La Norte, triumph and tragedy on Cerro Torre by Tomas Roy Aguilò

Published on 2022/04/07First attempts on the North Face of Cerro Torre 17 years climbing in El Chalten… I can say that my path was progressive and ...