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After just 8 days of effort belgium's Anak Verhoeven has repeated No pain no gain 9a+ at Rodellar in Spain.

The 2022 Piolets d'Or awards for alpinism will be conferred from 18- 20 November at Briançon in France to Sean Villanueva O’Driscoll of belgium for his Moonwalk Traverse of the Fitz Roy Group in Patagonia, and to Archil Badriashvili, Baqar Gelashvili and Giorgi Tepnadze from Georgia for the first ascent...

The European Bouldering Championship 2022 has been won by Janja Garnbret and Nicolai Uznik. Adam Ondra and Janja Garnbret have been crowned European Lead Champions, while Aleksandra Miroslaw and Danyil Boldyrev have won the European Speed titles.

Belgian rock climber Sébastien Berthe has made a swift repeat of El Niño on El Capitan, managing to onsight or flash almost all of this classic Huber testpiece in a single day.

Belgian climber Sébastien Berthe has abandoned his attempt to free climb Dawn Wall on El Capitan in Yosemite, USA. First climbed by Tommy Caldwell and Kevin Jorgeson and repeated by Adam Ondra, this is known as the most difficult big wall climb in the world.

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 video of Belgian climber Simon Lorenzi making the first ascent of Big Conviction 8C+ at Fontainebleau in France, January 2022.

During a climbing trip to the UK, belgium’s Siebe Vanhee repeated a flurry of hard gritstone trad climbs including Parthian Shot E9, End of the Affair E8 and Gaia E8.

Belgian rock climber Simon Lorenzi has repeated Off the Wagon Low 8C+ in Val Bavona, Switzerland. His is only the fifth ascent after Shawn Raboutou, James Webb, Daniel Woods and Giuliano Cameroni.

Belgian climber Anak Verhoeven has made the first repeat of Patxitxulo 9a/+ at Oliana in Spain.

The 2021 Piolets d'Or awards for alpinism will be awarded in November at Briançon, France, to Pierrick Fine and Symon Welfringer for their ascent of Sani Pakkush and Ethan Berman and Uisdean Hawthorn for their ascent of Mount Robson. Catalan climber Silvia Vidal has received a special mention.

At Montserrat in Spain Belgian climber Seb Berthe has made the first repeat of Arco Iris, the 200m 8c+ multi-pitch freed by Edu Marín in 2020.

Seb Berthe from belgium has made a single day repeat of Tarragó (240m, 8b+) at Montserrat in Spain.

On the south face of Fitz Roy in Patagonia the alpinists Seán Villanueva O’Driscoll and Jonathan Griffin have made the first ascent of La Chaltenense (500m, 7a), a huge offwidth described by the first ascensionists as a 'king line'.

Interview with Simon Lorenzi after the first ascent of Soudain seul, ie the sit start to Big Island at Fontainebleau in France, which the Belgian rock climber has graded 9A.

Interview with Sean Villanueva O’Driscoll after the Fitz Roy Traverse in Patagonia, carried out solo from 5 to 10 February and christened the Moonwalk Traverse by the Belgian mountaineer. This is only the second time that the iconic skyline of Patagonia has been climbed in its entirety in a single...