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On Thursday 12/01/2023 Greg Boswell made the First Ascent of 'Bring da ruckus' at Lochnagar. Graded XII 13, this 2-pitch outing is one of the hardest mixed climbs in Scotland.

Interview with Chamonix-based alpinist Colin Haley who in September 2022 completed the first solo winter ascent of the Supercanaleta route on Fitz Roy in Patagonia.

The video of French climber Sébastien Bouin making the First Ascent of Nordic Marathon, a 130m 9b/+ at Flatanger in Norway.

Finnish alpinist Juho Knuuttila (27) has added two new mixed climbs on the SW Face of Rånkeipen close to Narvik in Norway. 'Arctic Circus' (M6, WI6) was first ascended with Alexander Nordvall (29), while 'Polar Vortex' (M6, WI6) was established rope-solo. Knuuttila provides the details.

After three years of effort, on 30 December 2022 Alviero Garau and Davide Lagomarsino completed the First Ascent of 'Crysalis by Grenke' (550m, 7a+ max, 6a+ obligatory) up the SE Face of Punta Giradili close to Baunei in Sardinia.

The deadline for the 2023 First Ascent Expedition Award is 28 February 2023. Promoted by the UK-based charity GRIT&ROCK, the annual expedition grant pool of USD10,000 is aimed at supporting female advancement in mountaineering

Brette Harrington has made a rare free ascent of Mezzogiorno di Fuoco (8b max, 7c obligatory, expo, 270m) on Punta Giradili in Sardinia, Italy.

From 29 October to 16 November 2022 Rebeca Cáceres, Nadine Lehner and Isidora Llarena established a new route on Cerro Arenales above the Northern Patagonian Icefield. In order to do so, the three women completed an 150km autonomous traverse through this remote region. Lehner provides the details.

From 4 - 7 August 2022 Caro North, Capucine Cotteaux and Nadia Royo Cremer made the First Ascent of Via Sedna up the unclimbed East face of Northern Sun Spire in Greenland. The trio established the impressive 780m 7b+/A0 after travelling to the mountain by sailing boat from France with...

On 18/12/2022 Greg Boswell and Guy Robertson made the First Ascent of Vortex X,10, a testing new winter climb on Cul Mor in NW Scotland

German climber Moritz Welt has made the First Ascent of a former Markus Bock project at Schiefer Tod in the Frankenjura, calling it Lazarus and grading it 9a+.

At Ponte di Legno in Italy Axelle Gachet-Mollaret and Rémi Bonnet won the Individual race of the first stage of the Ski Mountaineering World Cup 2023. The Sprint race was won by Célia Perillat-Pessey and Arno Lietha.

In July 2022 Jan Novak and Thibau Grandjean made the First Ascent of Circoncision (150m, 7a+) a new 150m multipitch on Lemur Wall in the Tsaranoro mountains of Madagascar. Novak, usually behind the lens of his camera, reports.

On 10/12/2022 the two South Tyrolean mountain guides Simon Gietl and Andrea Oberbacher made the First Ascent of Avatar, a new mixed climb up the NW Face of Sasso Pordoi in the Dolomites.

The video of Shawn Raboutou and Giuliano Cameroni attempting Burden of Dreams, the world's first 9A boulder problem located in Finland and freed by Nalle Hukkataival in 2016.

The video of the First Ascent of 'The Pace of Comfort', the mixed climb established up the NW Face of Kichatna Spire in Alaska from 23 to 27 May 2022 by David Allfrey, Whit Magro and Graham Zimmerman.