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Numerous Russian mountaineers and climbers are standing against the war in Ukraine, signing open letters and sharing their dissent on social media.

The report by Johannes Egger who with Simon Furggler, Alex Unterkalmsteiner and Manuel Luterotti established Der Name der Rose, a new mixed climb in Val Lasties, Dolomites, close to his famous Solo per un altro Hashtag.

At the age of 99, Swiss alpinist Marcel Rémy continues to climb and have fun.

Daniel Ladurner reports about the first ascent of Cold Heart in Val Lasties, Sella Group, Dolomites, first ascended on 13 February 2022 with mountain guide Thomas Mair.

Interview with Horacio Gratton who from 26 - 27 January 2022 with fellow Argentine mountaineers Esteban Degregori and Pedro Odell made the first ascent of El Zorro y la Rosa (6c+ C1 500m) on the SE face of Aguja Saint-Exupéry in Patagonia. The new route leads to the south summit...

Through global warming, our rampant consumption, unsustainable tourism and our own expectations, the Alps are threatened. Check out the documentary ALPS - TO GO?!, written by Tom Dauer.

Ondrej Húserka reports about Pain and Gain, a new climb on the East Face of Aguja Desmochada in Patagonia established on 27 and 28 January 2022 with Jozef Kristoffy.

On the 26th of January 2022 Line van den Berg from the Netherlands and Fay Manners from Great Britain have made the first female ascent of 'Phantom Direct', also referred to as 'Via in memoria di Gianni Comino', established in 1985 on the south face of the Grandes Jorasses in...

The winter expedition to Manaslu led by Simone Moro and Alex Txikon has been called off due to constant snowfall and the elevated risk of avalanches.

Today at Grotta dell'Arenauta in Italy Stefano Ghisolfi made the first ascent of L'Arenauta, an old project bolted by Giuliano Tarquini for which Ghisolfi has now proposes the grade 9b.

On 20/02/2020 the mountain guides Simon Kehrer and Lukas Troi from the South Tyrol, Italy, established Corona Clean (Wi6 / M9) in Val Travenanzes, Dolomites.

On 27-28 January 2022 Pepo Jurado, Sebastian Pelletti made the first ascent of Cuarzo Menguante on the East Face of La Hoja in the Bader Valley in the Torres del Paine, Patagonia

Alpinists Christophe Dumarest and Tom Livingstone have made the first ascent of Changing Corners (M7, 250m) on Pointe Adolphe Rey in the Mont Blanc massif.

On Saturday 29 January at Saas Fee in Switzerland local favourite Petra Klingler and France's Louna Ladevant won the 2022 Lead Ice Climbing World Championships. Mohsen Beheshti Rad and Natalia Savitskaia were crowned Speed World Champions on Friday 28 January.

The El Chalten mountain rescue has announced that there is no longer any hope of finding Corrado 'Korra' Pesce alive. The Italian mountain guide was hit by rock and ice high up on Cerro Torre along with his Argentine climbing partner Tomás Aguiló. Matteo Della Bordella (who with David Bacci...

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.