Climbing

According to recent reports, David Lama and Hansjörg Auer were spilled on Wednesday in Canada by a huge avalanche. A sign of life of the two alpinists, who were traveling with the American Jess Roskelley, there is not yet.

Quick comes in climbing the progress, as well as a first stagnation in the difficulty 6a. Who wants to make the leap to 7a, should start with a systematic training. We talked to Pirmin Scheuber, Swiss national coach, about what it takes to get into the seventh grade.

A short film by The North Face released a few days ago shows James Pearson and his wife Caroline Ciavaldini on their trip to Japan to face a new challenge in waterfall climbing, also known as "Sawanobori". The two were accompanied on their adventure by Japanese climbers Yuji Hirayama and Toru Nakajma.

The British Maddy Cope manages the redpoint ascent of the Trad route principle hope (8b / +, E9 / 10) on the Bürser plate. She is the third person to score the route in recent weeks.

Within a very short time, the Swiss Giani Clement and the 18-year-old German Leon Fraunholz get an inspection of the bouldering classic The Story of Two Worlds...

Shortly before the first World Cup of the season, the American Sean Bailey manages to climb the 9a route Coup de Grâce in Val Bavona, Ticino. The inspection...

Top climber Adam Ondra leaves nothing to chance. As part of his preparations for the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, he recently started attending ballet classes. More on this in the latest video in his series "Road to Tokyo".

EDELRID calls on the owners of the "Turn" reel to check the riveting of their reels. Batch XXXX 18-150 is affected (XXXX stands for an individual consecutive number and is irrelevant for the test).

A lot has been written and extensively discussed in the German-speaking world about how to belay correctly when climbing a rope. Nevertheless, Walter Britschgi calls for a rethink. We got him...

Alex Honnold has already developed some innovative products together with his sponsor Black Diamond. Including a heated chalk bag or the inflatable crash pad. Now launched...

The 29-year-old Austrian Nadine Wallner is the second woman to score the Trad-Testpiece Principle of Hope on the Bürser Platte.

Based on an independent test carried out by the ILNAS surveillance authority in Luxembourg, OCÚN has decided to voluntarily withdraw its Via Ferrata Torq 2 product from the market...

In an interview with LACRUX, Jacopo Larcher talks about the ups and downs of designing the Tradroute Tribe in Cadarese.

On the 14. August 2017 succeeded Beat Kammerlander the first redpoint ascent of the route combat zone in Rätikon. This movie shows the process behind the route.

After months of setting up and designing, the Spanish professional climber has now managed to climb the longest overhanging roof route in the world, Valhalla (9a +, 380 Meter), in the Chinese Getu red dot.

The Austrian eyewear manufacturer Gloryfy produces eyewear that does not break. Glasses and frames consist of the special Kunstofft NBFX.

Finally the long wait comes to an end. The film about the historic free-solo on-route of the route freeriders on El Capitan by Alex Honnold comes into the cinemas.

The South Tyrolean Jacopo Larcher managed in the climbing area Cadarese the first ascent of the heaviest Trad route in the world: Tribe.

From a certain level of climbing a regular training on a finger board is very useful and effective. In today's guest article, Christoph Völker explains what it takes to get started in the world of fingerboard training.

The Italian Marco Zanone succeeds in the famous Val-Bavona route Coup de Grâce (9a) in Switzerland.

Scarpa is releasing a movie about the Deep Water Soloing Trip on Mallorca by brothers and sisters Julia and Jernej Kruder in Autumn 2018.

In 2018, 3211 people found themselves in an emergency in the Swiss Alps and the Jura and had to be rescued or rescued by mountain rescue - almost 20% more than in the previous year. 135 people died in classic mountain sports.

In his fourth episode "Road to Tokyo" Adam Ondra gives an insight into his beginnings as a climber and why he likes to climb. One thing is clear: climbing is Adam's passion.

Michi Wohlleben, the professional alpinist resident in Switzerland, manages the famous Route Beat Kammerlander: Prinzip Hoffnung (8b / +, E9 / 10) on the Bürser Platte.