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On 31 May 2025 Italy's William Boffelli set a new Chamonix - Mont Blanc record, stopping the clock after 4 hours 43 minutes. Here's the video of the new fastest known time.

On 31 May 2025 the Italian ski mountaineer William Boffelli set a new Chamonix - Mont Blanc record, stopping the clock after 4 hours 43 minutes. The previous fastest known time had been set by Benjamin Vedrines a week ago.

On 24 May 2025, French mountaineer Benjamin Védrines required 4 hours, 54 minutes, and 41 seconds to complete the round trip from Chamonix to the summit of Mont Blanc. Here's the first video of the new fastest known time.

Two new fastest known times have been set on Mont Blanc: Èlise Poncet ascended from the church to the summit and back in 6:54, while Benjamin Védrines, via a different route, required 4 hours and 54 minutes.

On 05/04/2025 Philipp Brugger from Austria and Nicolas Hojac from Switzerland climbed the north faces of Eiger, Mönch & Jungfrau in 15 hours 30 minutes. The previous record along the same three climbs was set by Ueli Steck and Stephan...

American climber Alex Honnold has climbed up and down the famous 'Plumber’s Crack' Red Rock in just over 25 seconds.

The record-breaking speed ascent of Manaslu, achieved on 19 September 2024, by American mountain runner Tyler Andrews who set the fastest known time of just 9 hours and 52 minutes to the 8163m high main summit.

British climber Alex Waterhouse has set a fastest known time on Plumber’s Crack at Red Rock, climbing up and back down the famous chimney in less than 26 seconds.

Starting from Advanced Base Camp, on 28 July 2024 French alpinist Benjamin Védrines climbed K2 without supplementary oxygen in just 10 hours 59 minutes and 59 seconds.

Swiss mountaineer Andreas Steindl has completed the famous Haute Route of Monte Rosa, also known as the Spaghetti Tour, in 7 hours, 45 minutes and 44 seconds.

Interview with Nadir Maguet who set a new ascent and descent record on the Grandes Jorasses in the Mont Blanc massif on Monday 10 July 2023. The 29-year-old Italian athlete climbed the Normal Route from Planpincieux (Courmayeur - Val Ferret)...

French mountain guide Paul Bonhomme set off in the early hours of this morning from Muggia in Italy on his ambitious 'Zero to Zero' project to run across the Alps all the way to the Principality of Monaco following the...

On 11 June 2023 Swiss mountaineer Dani Arnold soloed the three ridges on the legendary Salbitschijen in 9 hours, 36 minutes and 55 seconds.

Last summer Nadir Maguet climbed Grossglockner, Piz Bernina and Ortles and in doing so set the fastest known time for each mountain. The video portrait of the 28-year-old mountaineer from the Aosta Valley

On 15 August 2021 Dani Arnold made a solo ascent of the North Face of the Petit Dru (3733m) in the Mont Blanc massif, climbing the historic Allain-Leininger route (900m TD+) in just 1 hour, 43 minutes.

Interview with top American alpinist Chantel Astorga after the first female solo ascent of the Cassin Ridge on Denali in Alaska.