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On 12/05/2024 Fay Manners and Benjamin Ramos made what is believed to be a new ski descent on the south face of Grande Fourche in the Mont Blanc massif.

swiss climber Didier Berthod has repeated Cobra Crack at Squamish in Canada. Freed by Sonnie Trotter in 2006 and hailed as one of the hardest crack climbs in the world at the time, this fierce splitter was almost freed by...

On Sunday 14 April 2024, an estimated million cubic meters of debris collapsed on the north face of Piz Scerscen, the 3971m mountain located between the highly popular Piz Bernina and Piz Roseg on the swiss-Italian border. No casualties occurred...

The video of swiss climber Cedric Lachat onsighting 'Chimpanzodrome', the historic 7c+ at Saussois in France first ascended in 1981 by Jean-Pierre Bouvier.

On 20/03/2024 swiss mountaineer Roger Schäli made the first ascent of 'Nordwestwand Couloir' (WI5+, M5+, 600m) on Piz Güglia (3380m) in Switzerland's Engadin region.

The last stage of the 2024 Individual World Cup took place in Cortina, Italy, on Sunday and was won by Axelle Gachet-Mollaret from France and Remi Bonnet from Swtizerland. The overall season title was won by Bonnet and Emily Harrop...

The last stage of the 2024 Vertical World Cup took place in Cortina, Italy, today and was won by Axelle Gachet-Mollaret from France and Remi Bonnet from Swtizerland. The overall season title was won by Bonnet and Sarah Dreier from...

French mountaineers Yannick Boissenot, Julien Herry and Zian Perrot-Couttet have made a new ski and snowboard descent in the Mont Blanc massif, 'L'aileron du Requin' on Dent du Requin.

From 27 to 29 December 2023 Simon Gietl, Lukas Hinterberger and Michael Wohlleben carried out the first ground-up ascent of 'Ultima perla' on the North Face of Agner in Valle di San Lucano, Dolomites.

In October the German climber Alexander Huber made a free solo ascent of Aguglia di Goloritzè in Sardinia.

swiss climber Cédric Lachat has repeated Chilam Balam (9a+/b) at Villanueva del Rosario in Spain.

swiss alpinists Yannick Glatthard and Simon Wahli have climbed the Salbitschijen west, south and east ridge in an unprecedented record time of 5 hours and 53 minutes. The previous best known time was set in July 2023 in Dani Arnold...

swiss mountaineers Hugo Béguin, Matthias Gribi and Nathan Alexandre Monard have made the first ascent of the unclimbed north face of Flat Top (6057m) in the Kishtwar region of India. Called 'Tomorrow is another day', the 1400m line was climbed...

The film documenting the first ascent of the Kirti-Nose in the Garhwal Himalaya of India, established in October 2022 by swiss alpinists Jonas Schild, Andy Schnarf, Stephan Siegrist via their line 'Between two Parties' (350m, 7b/A3).

On 23/09/2022 Filip Babicz climbed Grand Capucin in the Mont Blanc massif in just 49 minutes solo and without a rope via the swiss Route and O Sole Mio exit.

From 19-24 August swiss alpinists Silvan Schüpbach and Peter von Känel made the first ascent of Renaissance, a big new climb on the North Face of the Eiger in Switzerland. The pair climbed the 1220m line without the use of...