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Thilo Schröter, two-time Norwegian bouldering champion, climbs Ninja Skills (8b +) in Sobrio. Thilo Schröter came to Switzerland about two weeks ago and has been climbing a boulder ever since...

The Swiss Climbing Guide Extreme Jura 2017 can be ordered from Filidor-Verlag at the special price of CHF 2017 until the end of April 39. The Swiss Jura has been...

A few days ago, Cedric Lachat climbed the Estado Critico (9a) route in the Spanish sports climbing area of ​​Siurana. Like so many athletes, Cedric Lachat frolics in Spain...

Nina Caprez manages to climb the famous route To Bolt or Not to Be in the Smith Rocks in the state of Oregon, USA. Nina Capriz is...

Natalie Bärtschi competed in her first climbing competition at the age of eleven and came second straight away. The event was followed by admission to the regional squad for Eastern Switzerland and...

The two Bernese climbers Beni Blaser and Kevin Heiniger published a video about their trip to the Spanish bouldering area Albarracin a few days ago. Do you look...

A few days ago, 18-year-old Baptiste Ometz from Lower Valais climbed the Keinfisch (8a +) line in the Chironico bouldering area in Ticino. The boulder requires kneepad and many hooks....

Kevin Hemund climbs the classic line Big Kat (8b +) in Chironico. "Yes, I wrestled her down. It was quite a challenge. But even the biggest cat...

Climber Sascha Lehmann was nominated for the Sporthilfe Young Talent Award. As the only climber. We absolutely have to cast our vote for Sascha, because that will also...

The CISM World Winter Games are currently taking place in Sochi. All members of the Swiss sport climbing delegation, including Benjamin Blaser, Remo Lehmann, Patrick Nacht, Daniel Winkler, Frank Gurtner...

Yesterday evening the Mammut Blacklight Boulder Challenge 2017 took place in the St. Gallen climbing hall. More than 230 athletes in brightly colored, loud clothes climbed under neon lights around...

The Swiss boulderer Giuliano Cameroni has ticked off one difficult boulder after the other in the past few weeks. His last coup: Martin Keller's...

In December 2016, the three professional alpinists Stephan Siegrist, Roger Schaeli and Thomas Huber managed to repeat the Eiger route Metanoia for the first time, which was designed by the American Jeff...

Just two days ago, Giuliano Cameroni got a super hard boulder in Chironico with Insanity of Grandeur (8b +). Today the young Tessiner laid another...

Giuliano Cameroni from Montagnola announces on instagram that he managed to climb Insanity of Grandeur (8b +, formerly 8c). With the inspection, the young...

The Swiss top climber Katherine Choong, like many other top athletes, dedicates herself to the Spanish rocks, while in more northern regions the snow and the sub-zero temperatures make ski tourers...

Swiss television accompanied the SAC expedition team on the final 2016 expedition in China and, in the third season of "High Out", shows breathtaking mountain landscapes,...

Professional alpinists Thomas Huber, Stephan Siegrist and Roger Schaeli secure the second ascent of Jeff Lowe's legendary "Metanoia" route on the north face of the Eiger. The report...

The Banff Mountain Film Festival begins its tour in February 2017 in Germany and Austria. In Switzerland, the festival makes in the months of March...

The 20-year-old Bernese Alexander Rohr reports on instagram the second ascent of "La Proue T 8c" in Charmey, Switzerland. That it can be even harder, Alexander...

On Friday, January 20, 2017, it's that time again. For the second time, the boulder bingo event with 50 new, tricky problems,...

The two towns of Mesocco and Soazza were hit by forest fires on December 27th. Due to the fires, the A13 had to be closed. Anyone who goes to Ticino over the Christmas period...

The Austrian top athlete Alex Luger climbed the multi-pitch tour "The Gift" on the Drusenfluh in the Rätikon in 2015. The video of the inspection is now online. The route...

Almost unnoticed, numerous new climbing routes, even a new area, have been developed on Äscher Nord in recent years. The driving force behind this is the...