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South Tyrolean mountain guide Simon Gietl frees has made the first free ascent of 'Blutsbrüder', the multipitch he established with Vittorio Messini and Matthias Wurzer in autumn 2022 on Torre Trieste in Civetta, Dolomites.

Watch Josh Wharton & Vince Anderson make the first ascent of 'Suerte Integral' on Jirishanca in Peru in 2023.

Slovakian mountaineer Ondrej Huserka died last week while descending Langtang Lirung in Nepal, shortly after having made the first ascent of the huge East Face with Marek Holeček. Born in 1990, he was widely regarded as one of the leading young alpinists, not only from Slovakia.

Last summer a small expedition of British climbers composed of Indie Fallowfield, Ben Kent and Chris Moore established a series of new routes on hitherto unclimbed west face of Innaarsuit, west coast of Greenland. The trio reached the world's largest island by sailing boat. Kent provides the details.

The development of Gola di Mikado, a beautiful new sport climbing crag near Capo Pecora in Sardinia, has been completed thanks to a crowdfunding campaign. All the details directly from Maurizio Oviglia, who bolted the routes together with Antonio Iaria and Tatjana Goex

British climber Toby Roberts has climbed his hardest sport climb to date, Gancho Perfecto (9a+) in Margalef, Spain.

Spanish alpinist Jordi Corominas has been named as 2024 recipient of the Piolets d'Or Carrière. He will receive the 16th Walter Bonatti - Piolets d’Or Lifetime Achievement Award at the international festival in San Martino di Castrozza (Dolomites, Italy) in December.

A Scottish-Slovak team comprised of Callum Johnson, Tim Miller, Simon Smith and Miška Izakovičová recently returned from a highly successful climbing expedition to the Torsukattak Fjord in southern Greenland where they established multiple new climbs, including 'Mussels for Tea, Packrafts in the Sea' (E6 6b (7b), 1350m) and 'Texture like...

For three decades, the La Venta Geographical Exploration Association has been exploring glaciers and glacier cave. After monitoring the Gorner glacier in 2020 and 2022, Alessio Romeo returned this year to check the health of the wonderful caves that formed within the ice, immediately above the rocky valley floor.

The organisers of the Piolet d’Or mountaineering award have published the 'big list' of most significant and innovative climbs carried out in 2023. The honoured ascents will receive the Piolets d'Or 2024 award during the celebration at San Martino di Castrozza (Italy) from 8 - 11 December 2024.

The preliminary details of the climbing expedition to Greenland by Matteo Della Bordella, Symon Welfringer, Silvan Schüpbach and Alex Gammeter, which resulted in the first ascent of 'Odissea Borealis' (1200m, 35 pitches, 7b) on the hitherto unclimbed NW Face of Drøneren

On 30/08/2024 German climber Lara Neumeier, belayed by Nadine Wallner, redpointed 'Headless Children' (8b, 250m) on Schijenfluh in the Rätikon massif.

Natalia Kalucka of Poland and Ludovico Fossali of Italy have win gold at the European Speed Climbing Championships.

Papa Ionut and Alex Manoliu recently returned from the Ak-su valley in Kyrgystan, where they established Pamir Rainy Avenue (700m). The Romanian climbers report.

On 23 and 24 July 2024 German alpinists Christian Bickel and Micha Rinn climbed all the peaks of the famous Tre Cime di Lavaredo skyline in one single push. Despite its obviousness, this is likely to be the first integral enchainment of these nine famous Dolomites peaks.

German climber Alexander Megos has repeated Change, the 9b+ at Flatanger in Norway established by Adam Ondra in 2012 and hitherto repeated by only Stefano Ghisolfi in 2020 and Seb Bouin in 2022.