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The video of Stephan Siegrist and Michael Gruber on Crack Baby, the ice climb first ascended by Gruber and Xaver Bongard on the Breitwangflue at Kandersteg in Switzerland in 1993 and nowadays one of the most famous icefalls in all...

On 14 February 2023 Swiss mountaineers David Hefti and Marcel Schenk made the coveted first winter ascent of the Corti-Battaglia route on Pizzo Badile (3308m). Established in 1953 by Claudio Corti and Felice Battaglia, this climb was the first to...

Japanese rock climber Keita Kurakami provides thoughtful insight into the mentality behind his First Ascent of the boulder problem 'Discovery' on the island of Yakushima, Japan.

On 24/02/2023 at Siurana in Spain Marco Zanone repeated La Rambla, one of the world's benchmark 9a+.

The story of the First Ascent of Repentance Super, established in Cogne in Italy’s Aosta Valley in 1989 by Fulvio Conta, François Damilano and Giancarlo Grassi. One of the most famous icefalls in Europe.

The climbing expedition report to Minteke Valley, Pamir-Alay, Kyrgyzstan, carried out by Dutch climbers Noor van der Veen, Regien Winnubst, Martin Platteschor, Dennis Hendrikx, Robert Löwensteyn, Sjoerd Boersma, Michiel Telkamp, Jeffrey Meesters, Anniek Verschuur, Bas Visscher, Court Haegens and Boris...

On 15 February 2022 French alpinists Léo Billon and Benjamin Védrines needed less than 10 hours to climb the difficult ‘Gousseault-Desmaison’ on the north face of the Grandes Jorasses. First ascended by René Desmaison and Serge Gousseaut in 1971, this...

The video of the first free ascent of Zvěřinec (Menagerie) at Holštejn in the Czech Republic, carried out in November 2022 by Adam Ondra who considers this 9b+ 'the second hardest route of my life'.

From the 12th to 13th of February 2023, Italian alpinists François Cazzanelli, Emrik Favre and Stefano Stradelli established Couloir Isaïe, a new mixed climb on Punta Brendel on the west face of the Aiguille Noire du Peuterey (3,773 m) in...

From 8 - 9 February 2023 Antar Machado and Cristobal Señoret have made the First Ascent of 'La Chilenita' (1,200m 5.11+ A0) on Cerro El Monstruo, Valle Cochamo, Patagonia, Chile.

The video of Yannick Flohé making the First Ascent of the 8c+ boulder problem 'Return of the Dreamtime' at Cresciano.

Between 5 and 8 February 2023 the French mountain guide Thibault Sibille carried out the first winter solo of the Rébuffat route (Michel Chevalier, Gaston Rébuffat 26/07/1944) on the NW face of Grand Pic de Belledonne (2977m) in the...

British rock climber James Pearson has climbed his long-standing trad project in Annot, France. 'Bon Voyage' shares the same start as Pearson's 2017 'Le Voyage' (E10), and although no grade has been put forward yet, it promises to be up...

On 30/02/2023 Italian alpinists François Cazzanelli, Emrik Favre, Stefano Stradelli made the First Ascent of 'Sognando l’inimmaginabile' on the East Face of Mont Blanc du Créton (3406m, Petites Murailles, Italy). 600 meters high, the new mixed climb is graded WI...

On 05/02/2023 at Margalef in Spain Jorge Díaz-Rullo made the First Ascent of 'Mejorando la Samfaina' (9b+).

Japanese rock climber Ryuichi Murai has repeated Sleepwalker, the 8C+ boulder problem at Red Rocks, USA, first ascended by Jimmy Webb in 2018.