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1.8m High Cairns Hidden Under White Blanket:

Climbers topping out on The Ben and hoping to find the three newly erected 1.8m high navigation cairns are being warned that the snow is so deep the cairns are almost indistinguishable from other lumps and bumps.

From Bjorn Pohl's Blog: "Adam Ondra has returned to Spain and Siurana. This time he crushed Richard Simpson's bouldery two finger pocket horror, A Muerte, F9a, in 3 tries, for its fastest ascent to date." More Info: Bjorn Pohl's Blog: RELATED VIDEO BELOW: Cedric Lachat Climbs A Muerte F9a

The Sheffield Adventure Film Festival (ShAFF) , being held at the Showroom next weekend (12th-14th March), has now matured into its fifth successive year and is set to be the biggest and most diverse yet.

Simon Jacques gives us the low down.

Andy Turner and Dave MacLeod Repeat Neil Gresham's test-piece The Tempest:

Back in 2001 Neil Gresham caused an ethical hurricane by creating The Tempest, a savagely technical route in Glen Coe.

The route has now been repeated by Andy Turner and Dave MacLeod.

Tonight's Friday Night Video is a 30 minute special feature from Pete Rhodes.

Pete has just returned from an epic adventure in Patagonia with George Ullrich and Mason Earle.

Welsh Assembly Hosts Lunch-Time Meet for BMC:

On the third of March a team of BMC big-wigs and active Welsh climbers headed down to Cardiff to meet up with politicians to recognise the importance of mountaineering for the Welsh nation.

On Sunday 28th February 2010, Mile End Climbing Wall hosted the Final of the 2009/10 SIBL series and what a Round it turned out to be. This was the second year in a row Mile End had held the final round and yet again they didn't disappoint. The route setters at Mile End had worked hard to create some brilliantly thought out problems using their experience to test the skills of the competitors. Routes were set in all of the main rooms including the training areas with the monkey room...

This is the ninth of our regular series of Scottish winter conditions updates from Dan Goodwin of MountainPlan.com.

"A significant avalanche has swept the West Face of Aonach Dubh in Glen Coe..."

The 2010 nominees for the controversial Piolets d'Or awards have been announced.

The awards, which were cancelled back in 2008 due to a major backlash from top Alpinists, have been going from strength to strength with a new ethos and format that has appeased climbers.

The Llanberis Mountain Film Festival 2010 is this weekend. Get yourself to North Wales. Here's a run down of what's on at LLAMFF 2010, including a competition for kids to draw the Padarn Lake Monster.

Has anyone seen or heard of the Padarn Lake Monster? Jack Geldard, UKC's Chief Editor says it goes Grrrrrr, and filmmaker and musician Ray 'Scouse Ray' Saunders says that it's BiiiiGG.

American climber Daniel Woods has succeeded on a long standing boulder project in Hueco Tanks. Desperanza (estimated at V15/Font 8C) is the low start to Esperenza (V14) and adds several hard-ish moves in to an already desperate problem. Video Link: Deadpoint Magazine