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Between 11 and 26 December 2025, Italian Mountain Guide Niccolò Bruni opened three new mixed routes on Rognon Vaudano (mont blanc): 'Le Piolet Perdu' with Alberto Boschiazzo, and 'Facile Facile 2.0' and 'Veloce Veloce 2.0' with Federica Furia.

On 31/12/2025 Filip Babicz and Olivier Gajewski climbed the historic 'Allain-Leininger' route (TD+, M7, 900m) on the north face of the Petit Dru (3,733m) in the mont blanc massif. This is a rare single-day free ascent in winter of this classic, established in 1935 by Pierre Allain and Raymond Leininger.

We are reproducing, courtesy of the Gorizia section of the Italian Mountaineering Club, the account of the historic first winter ascent of 'Diedro Nord' of Piccolo Mangart di Coritenza in the Julian Alps. Also referred to as 'Diedro Cozzolino', this dihedral was climbed solo by the Italian alpinist Renato Casarotto...

From 28 to 31 December 2025, French alpinists Antoine Bouqueret and Charles Dubouloz repeated the 'Directe Gamma' route on the southeast face of the Barre des Écrins (4,102m). This might well be the first winter ascent of this legendary route, first climbed in 1992 by the Italians Michele Frigerio, Eugenio...

From 27- 30 December 2025 French mountaineers Léo Billon, Amaury Fouillade, Nicolas Jean and Enzo Oddo made the first ascent of 'Basique' (1100m, V+ A2+ M5) up Point Whymper (4184m) on the north face of Grandes Jorasses in the mont blanc massif.

On 13-14 December 2025 Tom Livingstone, Filippo Sala and Silvan Schüpbach climbed 'You didn't ask', a new variation up the north face of Aiguille de Triolet above the Argentière Basin in the mont blanc massif. On the same days Philippe Bruley, Amaury Fouillade and Olivier Kolly ascended the central gully...

From 9 - 14 December 2025 French alpinist Charles Dubouloz completed a rare solo ascent of Divine Providence on Grand Pilier d'Angle. First ascended by Patrick Gabarrou and François Marsigny in 1984, the route is one of the most legendary climbs in the entire mont blanc massif

After 70 years of service, the iconic 16-meter brige that connects the two summits of Aiguille du Midi in the mont blanc massif has been replaced by a new walkway.

The video of the French Gendarmerie PGHM Chamonix experiment using a transport drone to support mountain rescue teams in the mont blanc massif.

Russian mountaineer Alexander Odintsov has been named as 2025 recipient of the Piolets d'Or Carrière. He will receive the 17th Walter Bonatti - Piolets d’Or Lifetime Achievement Award at the international festival in San Martino di Castrozza (Dolomites, Italy) in December, and follows in the footsteps of Walter Bonatti, Reinhold...

The organisers of the Piolet d’Or mountaineering award have published the 'big list' of most significant and innovative climbs carried out in 2024. The honoured ascents will receive the Piolets d'Or 2025 award from 9 - 12 December 2025 during the celebration at San Martino di Castrozza (Italy).

Last summer the Italian mountain guides Niccolò Bruni and Gianluca Marra established 'Diretta al Borelli' on the south face of Mont Noir de Peuterey in Val Veny, in the mont blanc massif.

Last weekend an anonymous collective of climbers and alpinists hung a giant Palestinian flag on the west face of Les Drus to denounce the ongoing genocide in Gaza.

On 7 March 2025 François Cazzanelli and Giuseppe Vidoni made the first ascent of 'Bianco Invisibile' (800m, 6c, M7, AI5) on the east face of Aiguille Blanche de Peuterey (4112m) in the mont blanc massif.

On the 31st of July, Aurélia Lanoë and Silvia Loreggian set off from Ventimiglia in NW Italy on their 'South 6 project'. The idea is to cross the Alps by bike from the west to east and free climb six major south faces: Corno Stella, mont blanc, Wenden, Rätikon, Marmolada,...

French alpinists Léo Billon and Enzo Oddo have made the first free ascent of 'Voie Lafaille' on the West face the Drus in the mont blanc massif. The route was established solo by French ace Jean-Christophe Lafaille in winter 2001.