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Height of Land Publications, the independent publisher of Alpinist, Backcountry and Telemark Skier Magazines, announced today the well-known climber and editor Michael Kennedy will join Senior Editor Katie Ives to relaunch Alpinist Magazine...

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As previously reported on Alpinist.com, Italian climbers Enrico Bonino and Paolo Stroppiana opened a new route on Mont Maudit, Mont Blanc Massif...

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As initially reported in the October 4, 2008 NewsWire, Anne and John Arran have completed the first ascent of Amurita (E7 6b [5.12+ R], 10 pitches), a route located beside a 600m waterfall on the Amuri Tepui in Venezuela...

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This season the car-to-car speed record for climbing Mt. Rainier (14,411'), the famous peak southeast of Seattle, Washington, was broken three times. The first new record was set this summer on July 6 by Justin Merle with a time of 4:49:35...

Alan Kearney has been at it again on East McMillan Spire (7,992') in the Southern Pickets, Cascades, Washington. In 2002 he made the second ascent of its North Buttress (V 5.9, 27 pitches, ca...

Two weekends ago, Patrick Gabarrou and Michel Coranotte established Hugues d'en haut (TD) on the north face of the Grandes Jorasses above Chamonix, French Alps. Hugues d'en haut is located in between Petit McIntyre (TD, 600m) on its right and Coulee Douce (D, 400m) to the left...

James Pearson's success on a bold slab project at Dyer's Lookout on the North Devon coast of England may mark the most difficult route ever climbed with traditional protection...

As reported in the September 3, 2008 NewsWire, Ueli Steck, with the support of Stephan Siegrist, freed what is now the Eiger's hardest route, Paciencia (8a [5.13b], 23 pitches, 900m), from August 29-30, 2008...

The October 31, 2007 NewsWire reported a new route on Monte Disgrazia (3678m), a major high peak in the Swiss Central Alps, by the Italian alpinist Benigno Balatti. Astonishingly this was his eighteenth new route on the mountain, a record indeed...

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AlexAnna is the new offering from Italian Rolando Larcher on the great southern walls of the Marmolada, one of the most iconic of the Dolomites...

The summer of 2008 was exceptionally rainy in Alaska. This was evidenced by extensive flooding in Fairbanks and Nenana...

Last weekend Rolf Larson and Eric Wehrly made a first ascent of Hardest Mox, or Point 8501, a previously unclimbed peak in the Cascades Range of Washington State...

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Today on forums such as mountainproject.com and supertopo.com, rumors are circulating that climbing legend Jim Bridwell has died...

Editor’s Note: Below, Brandon Pullan recounts his and others’ summer climbing exploits in the Canadian Rockies...

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In an initiative proposed last summer by Mountain Equipment Co-op (MEC) and Gripped magazine, several climbing communities throughout Canada held meetings in 2007 to discuss the formation of a nationwide access group: the National Climbers' Access Initiative (NCAI)...

In August, continuing their successful North American climbing tour (read more about Favresse's second ascent of Cobra Crack in the August 2, 2008 NewsWire), Belgians Nico Favresse and Sean Villanueva O'Driscoll freed two lines on the Minaret--a steep subpeak of South Howser Tower--in Bugaboo...

Throughout August I spent six days scrubbing Cannabis Wall and, as though on cue, September offered up a couple of weeks of perfect weather...