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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.

French rock climber Solène Amoros and Katherine Choong from switzerland have repeated the mythical multipitch sport climb Ali Baba (8a+, 240m) at Aiglun in France.

54-year-old Swiss climber Chris Frick reports about his recent repeat of Stop Sika, an 8c at Rawyl in switzerland.

44-year-old Roger Schäli has completed the first ascent, ground-up and rope-solo, of Tierra del Fuego on Roda Val della Neve in switzerland.

2022 was a disastrous year for Swiss glaciers: all ice melt records were smashed by the great dearth of snow in winter and continuous heatwaves in summer. More than 6 percent of the ice volume was lost, reports the Cryospheric Commission (CC) of the Swiss Academy of Sciences.

Swiss climber Alexander Rohr has made the first ascent of Oblivion, an old project at Gimmelwald in switzerland now graded 9a.

Watch Swiss climber Cédric Lachat repeat Wogü, the 250m 8c in Rätikon, switzerland, established ground-up by Beat Kammerlander in 1998 and freed by Adam Ondra in 2008.

A short summary and video of Ryan Colley and his Ski Traverse across the Alps in switzerland. 580km over 26 days, carried out last spring.

Interview with Swiss alpinist Silvan Schüpbach who on 31/07/2022, with Carlos Molina from Argentina, climbed 7 routes in 24 hours in Wendenstöcke, switzerland.

Watch Cédric Lachat making the first repeat of Fly, the difficult multi-pitch climb in Lauterbrunnental in switzerland freed by Germany’s Alex Megos. The Swissman repeated the route with Tobias Suter in 2019.

In April 2022 Shawn Raboutou made the first ascent of Alphane. Located at Chironico in switzerland, this is currently only the third boulder problem in the world to be graded 9A. Film by Ben Neilson.

Yannick Glatthard and Jonas Schild have established Stiller-Has (280m, 7c+/8a?) and Wilde Has (350m, 7b?) on Gstellihorn in switzerland’s Bernese Oberland.

The videos of Swissman Cédric Lachat repeating Yeah Man at Gastlosen with Melissa Le Nevé and Zahir on Wendenstöcke with Fabien Dugit.

Swiss climbers Katherine Choong and Jim Zimmermann have both repeated Hattori Hanzo, the seven pitch 8b+ on the North Face of Titlis above Engelberg in switzerland, first ascended by Matthias Trottmann.