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Numerous Russian mountaineers and climbers are standing against the war in Ukraine, signing open letters and sharing their dissent on social media.

The Italian Sports Climbing Federation has offered support and accommodation in Arco, Italy, for all athletes of the Ukrainian Sport Climbing Federation.

The Union Internationale des Associations d'Alpinisme has announced it has cancelled the last two stages of the Ice Climbing World Cup in Russia. Published below is the official UIAA press release.

In the wake of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the International Federation of Sport Climbing has officially suspended the first stages of the Speed and Boulder World Cup 2022, originally scheduled to take place from 1 to 3 April 2022 in Moscow. Published below is the official IFSC press release.

Interview with French mountaineer Charles Dubouloz who from 13 to 18 January 2022 made the first winter solo of Rolling Stones on the north face of the Grandes Jorasses in the Mont Blanc massif.

The second episode of Lines Of Legends directed by Yuri Palma features Andrea and Marco Zanone versus Stone Love, the famous 8b+ first ascended by British rock climber Jerry Moffatt in Germany's Frankenjura in 1988.

Interview with Horacio Gratton who from 26 - 27 January 2022 with fellow Argentine mountaineers Esteban Degregori and Pedro Odell made the first ascent of El Zorro y la Rosa (6c+ C1 500m) on the SE face of Aguja Saint-Exupéry in Patagonia. The new route leads to the south summit...

On 20/02/2020 the mountain guides Simon Kehrer and Lukas Troi from the South Tyrol, Italy, established Corona Clean (Wi6 / M9) in Val Travenanzes, Dolomites.

23-year-old British climber Anna Taylor has made a free solo ascent of Psykovsky’s Sequins E8 at Danby Crag, England.

Belgian climbers Sébastien Berthe and Siebe Vanhee are currently attempting to climb The Dawn Wall on El Capitan in Yosemite.

From 13 to 18 January 2022, French alpinist Charles Dubouloz completed the first solo ascent of the famous mixed climb Rolling Stones on the north face of the Grandes Jorasses in the Mont Blanc massif.

The video of Ines Papert & Luka Lindič making the first ascent of Heart of Stone on the West Face of Mount Huntington in Alaska in April 2021.

In April British rock climber Franco Cookson made the first ascent of Immortal at Maiden's Bluff, Yorkshire, uk. Graded E11 7b, it currently stands as one of the most difficult and dangerous in the country.

The Aosta Valley Climbing Club has announced that the siblings from Courmayeur Luca and Martina Blanchet have won the Tiro Leader 2021 competition. The event at the crag La città di Uruk crag in Val Sapin, Italy, involved freeing two difficult sport climbs.

The second video of British rock climber James Pearson repeating Harder Faster at Black Rocks in the Peak District, uk.

On 05/12/2021 Greg Boswell, Hamish Frost and Graham McGrath have established 'Take Me Back To The Desert', a completely new winter line on Beinn Eighe in Scotland.