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With their repeat of the Gogna-Cerruti climb on the Matterhorn the French mountaineers Leo Billon, Sébastien Ratel and Benjamin Védrines have completed their project of climbing the three great north faces of the Alps in winter via three Direttissima.

Llast week in Valtellina, Italy, Axelle Gachet Mollaret and Xavier Gachet won the Individual race of the Ski mountaineering World Cup 2021/22, while Emily Harrop and Oriol Cardona Coll won the Sprint.

Swiss alpinists Jonas Schild and Stephan Siegrist have made the first ascent of OeschiMixTrix, a new mixed climb at the sector Oeschinensee at Kandersteg.

On Saturday 29 January at Saas Fee in switzerland local favourite Petra Klingler and France's Louna Ladevant won the 2022 Lead Ice Climbing World Championships. Mohsen Beheshti Rad and Natalia Savitskaia were crowned Speed World Champions on Friday 28 January.

Saas Fee in switzerland is currently hosting the Ice Climbing World Championships 2022. After the Speed discipline won yesterday by Mohsen Beheshti Rad and Natalia Savitskaia, the Lead finals take place today at 18:30. Live streaming directly from ‘the coldest car park in the world’.

Yesterday at Morgins in switzerland Marianna Jagercikova from Slovakia and Oriol Cardona Coll from Spain won the second Sprint race of the 2021/22 Ski Mountaineering World Cup season.

Marcel Schenk, climbing with Tom Bärfuss has completed La bella e la bestia, a mixed route he began in 2019 with David Hefti nel 2019 on Piz Balzet in Valle Albigna (Val Bregaglia), switzerland

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.

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.

The Ski Mountaineering World Cup 2021/2022 started in Ponte di Legno, Italy yesterday and the Sprint event race won by Arno Lietha from switzerland and Emily Harrop from France.

Japanese rock climber Ryuichi Murai has made the first ascent of his Launch Pad Project at Mizugaki in Japan, grading his short and intense line 8C+ and calling it Floatin.

At Gaby in Italy’s Aosta Valley, Marcello Bombardi and Elias Iagnemma have both repeated Ziqqurat, the 8C boulder established in 2015 by Niccolò Ceria.

Belgian rock climber Simon Lorenzi has repeated Off the Wagon Low 8C+ in Val Bavona, switzerland. His is only the fifth ascent after Shawn Raboutou, James Webb, Daniel Woods and Giuliano Cameroni.

Three women, and three climbs, which helped change the course of rock climbing: Luisa Iovane on Comeback in Val San Nicolò in 1986, Lynn Hill on The Nose in 1993 and Josune Bereziartu on Bain de Sang in 2002. Our article written in conjunction with Vibram, to celebrate climbing yesterday,...

Swiss mountaineer Silvan Schüpbach has made the first ascent of Tradündition on the west face of Dündenhorn. Established with Peter Von Känel and Simon Wahli, this is probably the hardest trad multi-pitch in the country.

Austrian rock climber Nemuel Feurle has repeated Sangre de Toro 8b+ on Rote Wand in Austria.