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In February 2022 Kim Marschner at Chironico in Switzerland made the First Ascent of the 8C boulder problem Forgotten Gem. A month earlier at Cresciano the 24-year-old German had repeated the 8C bloc Crystal Ship.

The video of Adam Ondra freeing an old project, an 8b+ slab called Italo-Spagnola at Bus de La Stria at Arco, Italy.

The 25th edition of the night ski mountaineering competition Sellaronda Skimarathon was won on Friday 25 March 2022 by the teams Katia Tomatis - Elena Nicolini and Matteo Eydallin - Michele Boscacci.

At the crag Terra Promessa close to Arco, Italy, Adam Ondra has made the First Ascent of Wonderland 9b/+

The video of Japanese climber Yuji Hirayama making the first free ascent of Hanabi, the 8c+ freed by the 52-year-old at Futagoyama (Mt Futago) in Japan at the end of 2021.

Austrian mountaineers Sepp Stanglechner and Hans Zlöbl have made the First Ascent of Tauern Supercouloir on Gubachspitze in the Venediger Group.

On Saturday 19 March 2022 Simon Gietl from the South Tyrol, Italy, made a solo winter ascent of Via Hruschka on the north face of Peitlerkofel / Sass de Putia in the Dolomites. The 37-year-old descended by paragliding off the summit.

Uncut climbing video: Stefano Ghisolfi making the First Ascent of The Lonely Mountain 9b at Arco, Italy in December 2021

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.

Juho Knuuttila reports about the First Ascent of Entropi on the NW Face of Mt. Blokktind, carried out with Eivind Jacobsen on 04/03/2022. The stunning 1000m mixed climb has been described by the Finnish alpinist as 'one of the most beautiful winter lines I have seen in northern Norway.'

On 6 March 2022 Greg Boswell, Hamish Frost and Guy Robertson made the First Ascent of The Fear Factory (350m, WI6R), described as 'the last great unclimbed icefall on Ben Nevis.'

53-year-old Japanese rock climber Yuji Hirayama has made the First Ascent of Peaceful Mountain 9a at Futagoyama (Mt Futago) in Japan.

From 27 February to 1 March 2022 the Italian alpinists François Cazzanelli, Emrik Favre and Francesco Ratti completed the first winter ascent and second integral ascent of the combo 'Padre Pio Prega Per Noi + Echelle Ver le Ciel' (1,870m, 7b) on the South Face of the Matterhorn.

29-year-old Czech climber Adam Ondra has made the First Ascent of Bomba 9b at Bus de La Stria (Hotel Olivo) in Arco, Garda Trentino, Italy.

The video of Stefano Ghisolfi making the First Ascent of L'Arenauta, a 20-year-old project at Grotta dell'Arenauta (Sperlonga) now graded 9b.

On 09/02/2022 François Cazzanelli, Jerome Perruquet and Francesco Ratti made the First Ascent of Su Per Cignana on Becca Salé in Valtournenche, Italy, while on 10/02/2022 Cazzanelli and Perruquet made the First Ascent of Impulso Geniale on Pointe Adolphe Rey in the Mont Blanc massif.