Keyword: Multi-pitch climbing

Professional mountaineer, mountain guide and physiotherapist Michi Wohlleben, in collaboration with LACRUX, refreshes the various techniques for multi-pitch climbing – from material selection to belay station construction to rappelling.

Lara Neumeier has successfully redpointed the Silbergeier route (8b+, 160m, 6SL) in the Rätikon – now the German climber is tackling the Alpine trilogy.

One attempt. That's all Babsi Zangerl needed to climb the 1000-meter-long freerider big wall route (VI 5.13a/7c+) on El Capitan. The film Flashed tells the story of this Vorarlberg native's incredible achievement.

German all-round mountaineer Fabian Buhl, due to an injury, once again devoted himself to climbing. He successfully ascended the granite test piece Histoire Sans Fin.

Sean Villanueva succeeds in free climbing the most difficult route on the El Mocho massif in Patagonia, The Approach Team Line. It is an old techno route by two Bulgarians.

A 10-meter-wide loose rock flake forced Colin Haley and Tyler to retreat on the El Corazon route on Fitz Roy in Patagonia.

Matteo Della Bordella, Mirco Grasso and Alessandro Bau succeed in making the first ascent of a new big wall route on the east face of the Aguja Val Biois. They rate the route ¿Quién sigue? as 7a/A1.

The Grigri and Neox belay devices can be used to secure a person in lead and second climbing on multi-pitch routes. We'll show you how and what you need to look out for.