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On Saturday 22 April 2023 at 5:30 the XXIII Mezzalama Trophy will begin from from Breuil-Cervinia. The legendary ski mountaineering competition across the Monte Rosa massif will be streamed live as of 8:15.

Over a three day period Matt Cornell, Jackson Marvell and Alan Rousseau established a new mixed climb up the East Face of Mount Dickey in the Ruth Gorge of Alaska, 'Aim for the bushes' (AI6M6X 5250).

On 11 March 2023 French rock climber Hugo Parmentier sent his first 8C boulder problem, Le pied à Coulisse at Fontainebleau in France.

On 17 March 2023 Stefano Ragazzo made a solo ascent of 'Moulin Rouge' on Roda de Vael (2806m) in the Rosengarten group of the Dolomites, Italy. After the first winter ascent in 2005 by Nicola Tondini and Nicola Sartori, this is likely to be the first winter solo of this...

Alpinists Fay Manners and Freja Shannon have made the first ascent of 'How not to' (M5, 250m) on the north face of Grytetippen on the island of Senja in Norway.

American rock climber Anna Hazlett, aka. Anna Hazelnutt, has repeated the 8b/+ E9/E10 trad climb Prinzip Hoffnung located at Bürser Platte, Austria.

Today the Vjosa River in Albania, one of the last wild rivers of Europe is declared a National Park by the Albanian Government, becoming the first Wild River National Park in Europe.

From 4 to 7 May 2023 Melloblocco, the biggest bouldering meeting in the world, returns to Val di Mello - Val Masino, Italy. Pre-register online on www.melloblocco.it.

On 14 February 2023 Swiss mountaineers David Hefti and Marcel Schenk made the coveted first winter ascent of the Corti-Battaglia route on Pizzo Badile (3308m). Established in 1953 by Claudio Corti and Felice Battaglia, this climb was the first to breach the mountain's east face. Schenk, who in 2016 established...

On 24/02/2023 at Siurana in Spain Marco Zanone repeated La Rambla, one of the world's benchmark 9a+.

South Tyrolean mountaineer Simon Gietl has made the first winter solo traverse of the Geislerspitzen - Odles (Villnöß - Funes) in the Dolomites.

Climbing destinations and travel: notes from Leonidio in the Peloponnese, without a shadow of doubt one of the best rock climbing areas in Greece. By Nicoletta Costi and Nicola Noè.

From 8 - 9 February 2023 Antar Machado and Cristobal Señoret have made the first ascent of 'La Chilenita' (1,200m 5.11+ A0) on Cerro El Monstruo, Valle Cochamo, Patagonia, Chile.

British rock climber James Pearson has climbed his long-standing trad project in Annot, France. 'Bon Voyage' shares the same start as Pearson's 2017 'Le Voyage' (E10), and although no grade has been put forward yet, it promises to be up there among some of the hardest trad climbs in the...

On 05/02/2023 at Margalef in Spain Jorge Díaz-Rullo made the first ascent of 'Mejorando la Samfaina' (9b+).

On 31/01/2023 the East Face of Aguja Guillaumet in Patagonia the Italian alpinists Alessandro Baù, Claudio Migliorini and Francesco Ratti made the first ascent of 'Wake Up' (425m, 7a/A2).