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The video of the Nicolas Hojac and Adrian Zurbrügg climbing the classic eiger, Mönch & Jungfrau skyline in 13 hours in July 2022.

54-year-old Swiss climber Chris Frick reports about his recent repeat of Stop Sika, an 8c at Rawyl in Switzerland.

British mountaineer Tim Howell has completed his ambitious North Base Project which aimed to climb and fly the six great North Faces of the Alps. Depending on the mountain, the 33-year-old Brit either made a wingsuit flight or BASE jump....

On 12 July Swiss mountaineers Nicolas Hojac and Adrian Zurbrügg made a swift enchainment of eiger, Mönch and Jungfrau, climbing the classic skyline in 13 hours, 8 minutes and 49 seconds.

A selection of some of the best photos taken by FASI official photographers Giovanni Danieli and Davide Terenzi of the fifth stage of the Boulder World Cup, held in mid-June in Bressanone, Italy.

The final stage of the Boulder World Cup taking place in Innsbruck, Austria, was won by American climbers Natalia Grossman and Colin Duffy. Grossman was crowned season champion, together with Japan's Yoshiyuki Ogata.

Yannick Flohé claimed his first World Cup podium last night after winning the fifth stage of the Boulder World Cup 2022 at Brixen, Italy. The German beat Britain’s Maximillian Milne and Japan’s Tomoa Narasaki.

The third stage of the Boulder World Cup 2022 was won yesterday in Salt Lake City, USA, by Natalia Grossman and Mejdi Schalck.

At Meiringen in Switzerland last weekend Janja Garnbret of Slovenia and Tomoa Narasaki of Japan won the first stage of the Boulder World Cup 2022. Natalia Grossman and Yoshiyuki Ogata won silver, Andrea Kümin and Mejdi Schalck won bronze.

Today at 18:00 the premiere of the film Swissway to Heaven directed by Guillaume Broust featuring Cédric Lachat and his efforts to repeat five of the hardest multi-pitch climbs in Switzerland.

On the 25th of March 2022 Austrian alpinist Laura Tiefenthaler completed a solo ascent of the North Face of the eiger. Tiefenthaler's ascent is possibly only the second female solo after Catherine Destivelle's ground-breaking ascent in 1992, 30 years ago.

On 08/03/2022 Laura Tiefenthaler from Austria and Jana Möhrer from Germany repeated the classic Heckmair route on the North Face of the eiger in Switzerland. Tiefenthaler reports.

With their repeat of the Gogna-Cerruti climb on the Matterhorn the French mountaineers Leo Billon, Sébastien Ratel and Benjamin Védrines have completed their project of climbing the three great north faces of the Alps in winter via three Direttissima.

From 24 to 26 January 2022 French mountaineers Leo Billon, Sébastien Ratel and Benjamin Védrines repeated Directe de l'Amitié on the north face of the Grandes Jorasses in the Mont Blanc massif.

From 12 to 16 January 2022 the French mountaineers Leo Billon, Sébastien Ratel and Benjamin Védrines climbed the John Harlin Direttissima on the north face of the eiger in alpine style and in winter.

A recap of the sabbatical climbing year of American mountaineers Priti and Jeff Wright and their ascents of some of the most famous mountains in the world.