Nico Favresse and Seán Villanueva with mandolin and tin whistle in hand and photographer Ben Ditto on the Central Tower of Torres del Paine for more extreme jamming and the first free ascent of the East Face via the South

UKClimbing.com has established a series of active winter climbers, guides and instructors to provide accurate and up-to-date reports and forecasts for the main winter climbing areas in Scotland this winter. These reports will be made on the Winter Climbing Forum

Plas y Brenin instructors, Carlo Forte and Keith Ball spent yesterday removing two cameras from Mousetrap Zawn at South Stack, Gogarth on Anglesey, North Wales.The Cameras were placed there in February for the RSPB. They feed live to video screens

Charlie Woodburn has made a quick repeat of Daddy Cool, the E8 slab route at Carreg y Barcud, Pembroke."For a nano second I thought about trying to flash it as I know the style of climbing on that wall pretty

The fourth round of the SIBL took place on 12 December at The Castle Climbing Centre in London, with a record number of competitors turning out to try their luck at the 20 set problems. This round saw over 160

As previously reported on , renowned ice climber Guy Lacelle was killed in an avalanche late last week.In this video Doug Chabot of the Gallatin National Forest Avalanche Centre investigates that avalanche and the snow conditions of the gully where

On Friday 4th of December Scottish climber Alan Cassidy red-pointed his second F8c of the year, La Fabelita, in the awesome cave of Santa Linya in Catalunya, Spain:Ten minutes later an ecstatic Alan was hurrying off to work with a

World-class Canadian climber Guy Lacelle died in an avalanche Thursday morning while participating in an ice-climbing competition in Hyalite Canyon."He was climbing up a small gully and a team above him triggered a small avalanche," Doug Chabot, director of the

The MCofS have been involved with discussions about the damaging impact of new tracks in the Scottish mountains and questions have been asked in the Scottish Parliament this week.As a mountain user your comments are needed.

Tonight's Friday night video is a serious instructional offering, using footage from the documentary film Vertical Limit."Short-roping can be a problem on vertical walls. Especially when your exploding bolts fail!"

Albert Liechtfried and Benedict Purner climbed a new route on the 3rd of December in the Tirol area of Austria.Moonwalk (WI 6, M7) is 1000m long and is on the main ridge of the Zillertal Alps between Hoher Warte (2943

Erik Lambert of Alpinist.com reports:Mt. Ashley, the highest peak in northwestern South Georgia, has been climbed for the first time on record by Caradoc "Crag" Jones of Wales and Skip Novak, an American citizen living in South Africa.The 1145-meter peak

The final round of the Scottish Tooling Series 2009 took place at the Ice Factor in Kinlochleven on Saturday 5th December. There were 59 competitors - a superb turnout. Since this was also the Series Prize Giving it meant that

Danish climbers Kristoffer Szilas and Martin Ploug have made the first ascent of Ren Zhong Feng in Sichuan, China."On the way down from the summit Martin slipped while trying to place an ice screw and fell 30 metres down the

Sheffield based climber Ryan Pasquill has redpointed the Jerry Moffat test-piece Evolution (F8c/+) at Raven Tor in the Peak District.Pasquill has also been active on the grit, repeating Toy Boy and grabbing the first repeat of the highball That's My

8a.nu reports that Mina Leslie-Wujastyk has climbed another Font 8A this week.She has climbed Habe Die Ehre at Chironico, Switzerland. That's 3 Font 8A problems in 7 days for the Sheffield based boulderer.See previous UKC news report: Mina Leslie-Wujastyk -

Dave Turnbull, CEO of the British Mountaineering Council, is about to hit your screen.On Tuesday 8th of December Dave is going live on the UKC Forums to answer YOUR questions."Is he pulling his finger out at the BMC?"

Back in August UKC Gear Tester Jon Griffith climbed the legendary 4500m route of the Peuterey Integral with Luke Hunt."As I've never actually summited Mont Blanc before it was nice to finally get that ticked too."

Over the last few weeks Mike Adams has once again been pulling like a beast and climbing some outstanding problems.Saturday just gone saw Mike string together what he describes as the hardest set of moves he has ever climbed. Serendipity

8a.nu reports that Mina Leslie-Wujastyk has climbed Fake Pamplemousse at Brione Switzerland and Le Pilier at Chironico Switzerland, both graded Font 8A.You can read more about some of Mina's previous bouldering success here: UKC NewsMina is sponsored by , ,