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On 31/12/2023 Marco Cordin and Martino Piva made the First Ascent of 'Nunca con prisa, siempre con gana', a new mixed climb on Castello di Vallesinella in the Brenta Dolomites, Italy. Cordin reports.

American climber Carlo Traversi has made the First Ascent of The Dark Side, an 8C+ boulder problem in Yosemite Valley, USA.

The video of British climber Mathew Wright making the First Ascent of the bold trad climb 'Magical Thinking' E10 7a at Pavey Ark in England.

In December 2023 on Mëisules dala Biesces (Sella Group, Dolomites) Rolando Varesco made the first ascents of the mixed climb 'Alpinewelten' with Martin Sölva and 'Dünnes Wasser' with Emanuele Andreozzi.

On 24 December 2023 Andrea Locatelli made the First Ascent of 'Il bombarolo', a sport climb close to Bergamo in Italy route for which the 13-year-old climber has suggested the grade 8c+.

On 12/24/2024 Mirco Grasso, Francesco Rigon and Luca Vallata made the First Ascent of ' Archi del Vento', a fascinating new mixed climb on the north face of the Naso del Monte Duranno (Carnic Prealps, Friulian Dolomites, Italy.

The climbing film 'Valhalla, cielo de roca' featuring Edu Marin making the First Ascent of his huge 9a+ multi-pitch sports climb through the Grand Arch at Getu in China

On 24/11/2023 Italian mountaineers Paolo Marazzi and Luca Schiera completed the First Ascent of the unclimbed Cerro Nora Oeste above the Campo de Hielo Norte glacier in Patagonia, Chile. The expedition included Giovanni Ongaro and Andrea Carretta. Marazzi and Schiera climbed the West Ridge and have called the name 'Zenin'...

The video of the First Ascent of 'Sense retorn - No turning back', the multi-pitch rock climb dedicated to Hansjörg Auer established on Pared de Catalunya at Mont Rebei in Spain by Siebe Vanhee, Roger Molina and Jorge Solórzano in 2019.

In 2022 Kim Ladiges, Matthew Scholes and Daniel Joll made the coveted second ascent of the West Wall of Changabang (6880m) in India, first climbed by British mountaineers Peter Boardman and Joe Tasker in 1976.

Emanuele Andreozzi and Vaida Vaivadaite have established 'First Time', a spectacular new ice climb in Val Ombretta directly opposite the south face of the Marmolada in the Dolomites, Italy.

Austrian climber Jakob Schubert has repeated Alphane, the 9A boulder problem at Chironico in Switzerland. Success caps a stellar year for Schubert who in September made the First Ascent of BIG (9c) at Flatanger in Norway.

Italian mountain guide Francesco Rigon reports about the First Ascent of ice climb 'Solo per un sorriso' (WI 5+ 170m), established with Mirco Grasso on Croda di Cacciagrande in the Sorapiss Group (Dolomites) on 19/12/2023.

The video of Adam Ondra making the First Ascent of Chicken Nose (9a+) at Isenfluh in Switzerland.

After the First Ascent in February 2023, British climber James Pearson has now proposed the grade E12 for Bon Voyage at Annot in France. Currently there is no other trad route of this grade. In this great introspective piece the 30-year-old British climber talks about the path that led him...

Climbing alpine style from 2-3 November 2023, Czech mountaineers Radoslav Groh and Zdeněk Hák made the First Ascent of 'Just one solution!'(ED WI4+, M5, 1200m) up the West Face of Cholatse (6440m) in Nepal. Hák reports about the route dedicated to the memory of Jan Ros.