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It's the same old story all over again and again. People complain about all those things that they can't do because of this and that. One thing I love about my job is that I don't get to meet those people at all. People I meet are full of energy, enthusiastic and sometimes crazy. Why? Because they…

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Rannveig Aamodt is, among other things, a professional rock climber from Norway, who got hooked up by climbing at early age. Throughout the years Rannveig developed her skills to the point where one's hobby turns into a carrer, entering elite-level rock climbing world. After a 50-foot ground fall in…

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After exciting finals in Chamonix, France, the world’s best Speed climbers has recently returned to Wujiang, China for one final competition and one last chance to lay it all on the line for a World Cup medal, while the Lead climbing elite fought for decision-making points one month before the end…

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Stephan Siegrist, Thomas Senf and Dres Abegglen made the first ascents of Bhala 5900m, Tupendeo 5700m and Te 5900m, three hitherto unclimbed mountains in the Kashmir region of lndia's Himalaya. A year after visiting the Kishtwar region in Northern India, Swiss alpinists Stephan Siegrist, Thomas Senf…

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Have you seen Meru? The Himalayan big wall climbing documentary that has brought the incredible perspective from Shark’s Fin on Mount Meru to Sundance 2015? No? Then read on. I don't really like blockbusters and the latest one, Everest, the true story of an attempt on the summit of Mount Everest in…

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Their aim was La Paciencia route (8a, 900 meters), on the North face of the Eiger in Switzerland but after numerous attempts been made, they had to give up as bad weather and wet rock stood in the way to achieve their goal. They climbed all the hard pitches fine but the weather was anything but…

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Anyone who watches competitive climbing knows David Lama. In his youth, he burst on the international climbing scene, becoming the youngest climber ever to win a senior stage of the Lead World Cup. Then he disappeared. Not completely though, he just exchanged the competitive scene for hard climbs up…

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The 7th edition of the Kiku, International Summit (IMS) will take place from October 12th till October 18th 2015 and offers an extensive program with different package options. Experiences in the mountains, meetings with people from the mountains and the confrontation with the inner mountain, one’s…

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In three days time he managed to grab the El Capitan's treacherous "Nose", world's most famous rock route. It was last year when the Dutch climber Jorg Verhoeven became the first non-U.S. climber to achieve that feat but recently, a documentary following Jorg's successful free-climb hit the internet…

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Evolene, a charming village nestled in the middle of Swiss Canton of Valais, widely known for the Matterhorn, might not be as famous as neighbouring resort towns such as Saas Fee, Verbier, and Zermatt but what this little town lacks in size makes up in a prehistorical rock that surrounds it: the…

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