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Angelika Rainer Pro Climber from IT
9a🔴, 8a+ OS, D15
3 times Ice climbing World Champion
World Traveler & Speaker

10 days of amazing climbing, during whose we experienced them all: rain, fog, sun, strong wind, cold hands and the first...
15/05/2026

10 days of amazing climbing, during whose we experienced them all: rain, fog, sun, strong wind, cold hands and the first beach day of the season.

Here is a list of the harder lines I’m super happy to have been able to climb. To every route there is always a little story:
Profanity has for sure the longest sequence of underclings I have ever climbed 😅. It was very windy and cold that day and I couldn’t almost feel my fingers, got crazy pumped but somehow made it through the crux and to the ancor 8b ✔️

Mondo in fuga at the Torre dei venti crag is definitely a king line, overlooking the village of Ulassai. I had tried this route the last day of a previous trip and really wanted to come back to it. The cruxy sequence of pockets on the steepest part of the wall is followed by some tiny crimps that fortunately get better the more you climb up 8b ✔️

Canna cinese is a line I have wanted to try for years. It follows a single tufa in the upper part of the wall of Lecorci, what is special about this route is that you can mostly crimp the tufa on the sides instead of pinching it. Getting to onsight it the first day was a perfect start to the trip. 8a os
Croce e dilizia 7c+ 2nd go the same day

Avvortici - this route turned out to have 3 wet sections and I’m simply proud of myself that I kept trying and fighting instead of giving up with the excuse of wet holds. 8a os

Pentothal might not be the most repeated route of the area, with it’s bouldery, powerful start which is for sure not my style but I enjoyed the challenge. 8a 4th go

Pupazetto - there was not the slightest trace of chalk on this line and searching my way up that blank, grey wall where the whole surface seemed to be the same was an experience on it’s own 😅 7c+ os

Thanks for the great times climbing, cooking, chatting, hanging out by the beach and having a couple of Spritz 🍹
📸 1 by during my first try 2 years ago


The past few weeks around Arco have been simply perfect. Weather was mostly great, shape seems to be on point and the pe...
30/04/2026

The past few weeks around Arco have been simply perfect. Weather was mostly great, shape seems to be on point and the people I spent time with added some extra motivation to the already very high psyche.

I’m also very happy that I’m back in “fight mode”. I have been climbing for so many years now and I know that the shape has ups and downs and so does the mind but it stil feels weird when on a low. For some time I could convince myself only to climb in my comfort zone which means that I would mostly try an 8a os or to work it within a day (I am aware that this is a good result and am totally not complaining 😅) but I felt a bit guilty for not trying harder stuff on my limit. But I was sure that the try hard mode would come back and it did.

It feels a bit strange to share those feelings here but I guess we all deal with ups and downs and there is no need to hide them.

Tick list of the past 2 weeks
Continental 8b+ 5th go
Un tempo per te 8b 4th go
Generator 8a+ 3rd go
Shiraz 8a+ 2nd go
Schizza Talon Variante 8a+ 3rd go
Baraka 7c+ 2nd go

That smile ‘cause I climbed an 8b+ in only 5 tries and almost can’t believe it 😅Continental ✔️ A big thanks to everybody...
20/04/2026

That smile ‘cause I climbed an 8b+ in only 5 tries and almost can’t believe it 😅
Continental ✔️
A big thanks to everybody who was cheering so much, it was a wonderful afternoon at the crag, climbing and chatting! And thank you and for the great days, climbing with you girls and watching you try hard and send every day gave me a huge boost of motivation 💪

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2 - my sending kit, I have been using it for 3 years now and apparently the lucky charm is stil working, I guess I will resole them one more time 😍
3 🍻🥳

Enjoying life at home
14/04/2026

Enjoying life at home


Happy birthday Skwama 🥳 my favourite climbing shoe is celebrating it’s 10th anniversary. It was love at first sight 😍 Th...
26/03/2026

Happy birthday Skwama 🥳 my favourite climbing shoe is celebrating it’s 10th anniversary. It was love at first sight 😍
They are super versatile, if it’s precise wall climbing, smearing on tufas or pushing on a steep wall, I have used them on limestone, granite and sandstone. They are the climbing shoes I pack if I can only bring one pair on a trip and they are my every day training shoe because they are comfy too.
To many more climbs together 🧗‍♀️🥂
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1 Apache in Cornalba was the first route I used the Skwama on in Nov 2015 by
2 happy Skwama family with the new anniversary model
3 climbing in Kalymnos by
4 Corsica by
5 Dolomites by
6 Padaro, Arco by
7 Red River Gorge by
8 Cassis, France by Fernando Ferreira
9 Longarone by
10 Tassilandia, Arco by




Life lately: enjoying Spring 😎🌸 first in Spain, now at home. 📸 1 climbing in Siurana by  2 it’s blooming around home 3 M...
19/03/2026

Life lately: enjoying Spring 😎🌸 first in Spain, now at home.
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1 climbing in Siurana by
2 it’s blooming around home
3 Memorias de una sepia 7c+/8a on sight pic by
4 fresh flowers on my balcony
5 ice cream season has kicked off
6 walking around Meran
7 stil need my down jacket 😅

10/03/2026

Little end of the season drytooling session, because there can’t be a Winter without a visit to Tomorrows World 😊⛏️❄️ of course only with an obligatory stop in my favourite cake shop in Val di Fassa 😋

Ramadan  8a+ ✔️ wow what a beautiful line 🤩 I was pretty surprised that I climbed this first go today. I had tried it 9 ...
27/02/2026

Ramadan 8a+ ✔️ wow what a beautiful line 🤩 I was pretty surprised that I climbed this first go today. I had tried it 9 years ago but didn’t remember anything but the name 😅 not sure what you would call this, but it felt like on sight and I’m very happy with it.
After a few steep moves you get to the crimpy crux section that is followed by some sustained wall climbing and then a slab leads to the last wall. Very varied climbing, beautiful rock and an amazing place 🤩 couldn’t ask for more!
📸 1 and 3 by

Miss Lilly ✔️ another historical line in the magical crag of Cornalba. This Winter I decided to dedicate time to some ro...
21/02/2026

Miss Lilly ✔️ another historical line in the magical crag of Cornalba.
This Winter I decided to dedicate time to some routes that had turned me down in previous years, both located in historical crags were the climbing style is tecnical and the grades are stiff. After Energia in Nomesino 10 days ago, this week was the moment for Miss Lilly. I had tried this route 3 times over the years but never found a solution for the very long move in the upper part that seemed simply out of my reach. But because I’m stubborn and because I love Cornalba, I tried again this Winter and I found a totally different beta, not using that far away hold but going instead to a sloper, where I had to change hands to then move to the next hold.
What fascinated me most in this route was that I had to do the 3 crux moves dynamically, which doesn’t happen very often on a slab where you usually move slowly and in balance. I’m very happy with this one because of the progress made on it. This is apparently only the second female ascent of this route, 37 years after the first ascent by in 1989. I can say for sure that this is the hardest 8a+ I have ever climbed 😅
📸 1 and 4 by during a try in 2021
2, 5, 6 during sent day
3 it’s easier to climb projects with lucky belay by and cheering by 😘

Energia = Mc2 Nomesino, 8b ✔️ Some routes require more effort, regardless of the grade written in the guidebook. The ver...
09/02/2026

Energia = Mc2 Nomesino, 8b ✔️
Some routes require more effort, regardless of the grade written in the guidebook.
The very intense start with it’s dynamical crux moves was for sure not my style and I also struggled to find the right beta for me in the slippery corner in the upper part. I gave the route a couple of tries for the past 2-3 Winter season but it always felt very hard. This year I promised myself to put in the necessary effort to climb it. The first two days felt again pretty desperate but last Sunday the moves suddenly felt better and yesterday I could clip the ancor.
A little piece of climbing history, first climbed by in 1988 💪!
🎥 are from last weekend, not from the sent go.
4th 📸 is how I sign routes to memorize the moves, pretty old style, I know 😊

Icy memories from an amazing trip to Canada last Winter 😍⛏️❄️🥶📸
27/01/2026

Icy memories from an amazing trip to Canada last Winter 😍⛏️❄️🥶
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