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The 5th episode of SCOTT's Freedom To Explore Series features Winter Pro Team Athlete Jackie Paaso, mountain guides Benjamin Ribeyre and Erin Smart and team, on an expedition to climb and ski the 12 highest peaks in Sweden, in an area known as Europe's last wilderness.

Last Monday 34-year-old Gabriele Moroni made the first ascent of Trofeo dell'Adriatico, a new 9a at Bus de La Stria (Hotel Olivo) close to Arco, Garda Trentino, Italy

The Italian Ragni di Lecco alpinists Paolo Marazzi and Luca Schiera have set off on expedition to Patagonia, more precisely to the Hielo Norte glacier, where they will attempt a mountain they noted in 2020 that is currently uncharted.

A case study of the use of drones in the historic first ski descent of K2, carried out in 2018 by Poland’s Andrzej Bargiel

Austrian climber Jakob Schubert has made a swift repeat of Erebor at Eremo di San Paolo close to Arco, Italy. The 9b was put up by Stefano Ghisolfi and previously repeated by Laura Rogora and Adam Ondra.

At the crag Celva in Northern Italy 15-year-old Gioele Piffer has repeated L’Arte di salire in alto, one of the first 8c’s in Italy established by Rolando Larcher 1992

Italian rock climbers Marcello Bombardi and Marco Zanone have repeated First Ley, the 9a+ sport climb established by Chris Sharma at Margalef in Spain

Lock Down Rock Up, directed by Nico Hambleton, documents the challenges British climber and paramedic Jerome Mowat faced as a front-line paramedic during the global pandemic and how he used rock climbing as an escape.

The film about Austrian climber Beat Kammerlander making the first ascent of WoGü, the difficult multi-pitch route he established in 1998 in the Rätikon massif in Switzerland, dedicated to Wolfgang Güllich.

In 2021 the Italian mountaineer Francesco Vascellari, solo or with friends such as Loris De Barba, completed a dozen new extreme skiing descents in the Dolomites.

The video of Swiss climber Giuliano Cameroni making the fourth ascent of Off the Wagon, the 8C+ boulder problem freed by Shawn Raboutou in 2018 in Val Bavona, Switzerland and repeated by Cameroni in May 2021.

At the end of December 2021, South Tyrolean mountaineers Simon Gietl and Jakob Steinkasserer made the first ascent of Focus, an ephemeral icefall close to Rein in Taufers / Riva di Tures in the Ahrntal Valle Aurina, Italy.

The video of Scottish mountaineer Dave MacLeod soloing the classic Orion Face Direct on Ben Nevis, one of the longest and most famous winter routes in Great Britain.

The report by 23-year-old Italian climber Luca Bana who on 26/12/2021 made the first ascent of Extrasistole galoppante 9a at the historic crag Cornalba in Val Seriana above Bergamo, Italy.

The video portrait of 56-year-old Japanese mountaineer Yasushi Yamanoi who was awarded with the 13th Piolets d'Or Carrière 2021 at the end of November at Briançon in France.

The video documenting the first ascent of Floatin, the 8C+ boulder problem at Mizugaki in Japan freed by Ryuichi Murai at the start of December 2021.