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At Ponte di Legno in Italy Axelle Gachet-Mollaret and Rémi Bonnet won the Individual race of the first stage of the Ski Mountaineering World Cup 2023. The Sprint race was won by Célia Perillat-Pessey and Arno Lietha.

On 24/11/2022 at Magic Wood in switzerland American climber Siara Fabbri repeated New Base Line, the classic 8B+ boulder problem established by Bernd Zangerl.

On 7/12/2022 at Cresciano in switzerland Camilla Moroni repeated La Proue (8B), the famous 8B boulder problem freed by Fred Nicole in 1998.

On Tuesday 6 December 2022 at Cresciano in switzerland William Bosi from Scotland flashed The Dagger 8B+ and sent Dreamtime 8C on his 4th attempt.

The video of 19-year-old Italian climber Pietro Vidi who sent his first 8C boulder problem, Dreamtime put up by Fred Nicole at Cresciano in switzerland.

The Ski Mountaineering World Cup 2022/23 began today at Val Thorens with the Sprint event, won by Emily Harrop and Arno Lietha.

19-year-old climber Chaehyun Seo from South Korea has repeated La Rambla (9a+) at Siurana in Spain. She is only the second woman to climb this iconic route after Margo Hayes in 2017.

The video of Shawn Raboutou making the first ascent of Megatron, a 9A boulder problem at Eldorado Canyon, Colorado, USA.

On 11/11/2022 Silvan Schüpbach and Peter Von Känel started their winter climbing season early with the first ascent of the mixed climb 'Frigo-combo' (M7/6a, 450m) on the NW Face of Douves Blanches (Point 3582m) above Val d'Arolla in switzerland. Schüpbach reports.

The organisers of the Piolet d’Or mountaineering award have published the complete list of most significant and innovative climbs carried out in 2021.The prize giving ceremony will be celebrated from 18 to 20 November 2022 at Briançon in France.

In switzerland Camilla Moroni has sent four 8A+ boulder problems, 'Delusion of Grandeur' and 'Second life' at Chironico, and 'Primitivo stand' and 'King of Sonlerto' in Val Bavona. The 21-year-old Italian climber has also sent her hardest problem to date, the 8B 'Heritage' in Val Bavona.

On 18 October 2022 Swiss climber Katherine Choong repeated E-Space Challenge 8c+ at Le Précipice de Corbière in France

On Monday 31 October 2022 William Bosi from Scotland made the third ascent of Alphane at Chironico in Canton Ticino, switzerland. Established by Shawn Raboutou in April 2022, it was repeated by Aidan Roberts about a fortnight ago.

24-year-old British rock climber Aidan Roberts has made the first repeat of Alphane, the boulder problem at Chironico in switzerland first ascended by Shawn Raboutou in April 2022 and graded 9A by the American.

French climber Solène Amoros has sent her first 8c+, La flûte en chantier at La Ramirole in the Verdon Gorge.

German rock climber Michael Wohlleben has made the first ascent of Bodhichitta, a highly technical 5-pitch route on Westliche Dreifaltigkeit in switzerland.