It’s one thing climbing over 1,800 feet up a vertical rock face, it’s another thing altogether to do it without the use of safety ropes – at speed. In September, Dani Arnold scaled the imposing Cima ...

The beam from my headlamp scans the rock above as I search of bigger handholds. Rusty pitons stick out of shallow cracks marking the route, but the holds aren’t as obvious. I move upward slowly, ...

Heini Gütl knows the normal route of Grande Cima di Lavaredo like the back of his hand. Every stone, every peg, every handhold. The 69-year-old mountain guide from Sexten recently climbed the mountain ...

The mountain guides Hannes Pfeifhofer and Dietmar Niederbrunner have made the first ascent of Zeitsprung, a new multi-pitch rock climb up Große Zinne / Cima Grande di Lavaredo, Tre Cime di Lavaredo, ...