Over the past month my sponsor Red Bull and I were confronted with some critique which was connected to the film production of my project on Cerro Torre. After finishing my alpine projects in the Dolomites and in the Mon...

After my free ascent of „Bellavista“ in the Dolomites, there was still some time for one more alpine project on my wishlist, before the comps would start. For quite some time now, I haven’t been to the great glaciers and...

In the year 2000, Alex Huber made his solo first ascent through the big summit roof of the Cima Ovest. Except for at the belays, he only used pitons and graded the route A4. Mid July 2001, he was then the first...

David Lama from Austria and Jorg Verhoeven from the Netherlands have carried out the first free ascent of their "Brento Centro" 8b on Monte Brento, Valle del Sarca (Arco), Italy.The last time we reported about ...

David has been on his trip all through Europe for more than 3 weeks. The journey started with the Mammut Teamtrip to Great Britain. Afterwards David wanted to join the ÖWK-training camp in Spain, but for like 100.000 o...

By now David has been in Great Britain for seven days and already climbed a couple of spectacular routs also including some classics. As an absolute highlight he climbed the route “Parthian Shot” (E9 6c), besides “Simb...

A few years ago I visited the Peak District nearby Sheffield (GB) together with my friend Jorg Verhoeven. And now the Mammut-Teamtrip will take me there again… What I really like about this region is the focus on trad...

There are some new photos of David’s attempt to freeclimb the Compressorroute on Cerro Torre online. The photos were taken by Corey Rich and you can find them in David’s gallery... ...

This special competition is the brainchild of Peter Reinthaler and Roman Pollack. Each pro teams up with an amateaur to compete against other teams. Winning isn’t everything, the main goal is to entertain the audience an...

The Patagonia adventure is over for this time. On February 5, almost three weeks before our planned return, we entered the plane from El Calafate to Tyrol. The reason was the unreasonable Patagonian weather and the bad c...

The weather in Patagonia is bad since almost one and a half month, and David and Daniel’s project to free climb the Compressorroute is not making any progress. It’s especially the strong wind that makes climbing the Cerr...

Since a few days a new gallery with pics of the last two worldcups in Brno (CZE) and Kranj (SLO) is online. In Brno David took the 8th place and in Kranj he got 10th. Click here to get to the gallery ...

For past three weeks it been mostly bad weather in Patagonia and David and Daniel were not able to get any higher on the Cerro Torre. The last attempt the two carried out on the 28.12.2009... « We left El Chalten at mid...

Just like the first and second try, David's third attempt ended at the 90m traverse. A heavy snowstorm made it impossible to climb any further, but still there are a few new photos in the gallery... Click here to s...

Here comes a short update from David, who’s stuck in El Chalten awaiting better weather. Check out the photos he uploaded in the Gallery. “Almost a month has passed since I began my journey. It’s not the first time that ...