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On Thursday 2 March Axelle Gachet-Mollaret & Emily Harrop from France and Matteo Eydallin & Robert Antonioli from Italy won the team race of the Ski Mountaineering World Championships at Boí Taüll in Spain.

The 40th edition of the Transcavallo 2023 ski mountaineering competition on the slopes of Alpago, Italy, was won by the teams formed by Elena Nicolini - Martina Valmassoi and Matteo Eydallin - Alex Oberbacher.

The 2023 Ski Mountaineering World Cup took place in Andorra last weekend. The individual race was won on Saturday by Axelle Gachet-Mollaret and Thibault Anselmet, while Gachet-Mollaret and Rémi Bonnet won the Vertical race on Sunday.

The deadline for the 2023 First Ascent Expedition Award is 28 February 2023. Promoted by the UK-based charity GRIT&ROCK, the annual expedition grant pool of USD10,000 is aimed at supporting female advancement in mountaineering

At Ponte di Legno in Italy Axelle Gachet-Mollaret and Rémi Bonnet won the individual race of the first stage of the Ski Mountaineering World Cup 2023. The Sprint race was won by Célia Perillat-Pessey and Arno Lietha.

24-year-old British rock climber Aidan Roberts has made the first repeat of Alphane, the boulder problem at Chironico in Switzerland first ascended by Shawn Raboutou in April 2022 and graded 9A by the American.

French rock climber Solène Amoros and Katherine Choong from Switzerland have repeated the mythical multipitch sport climb Ali Baba (8a+, 240m) at Aiglun in France.

The second episode of Stefano Ghisolfi attempting Silence, the first 9c in the world freed at Flatanger in Norway in 2017 by Adam Ondra.

30 years ago today German climbing legend Wolfgang Güllich died in a car crash aged just 31. He established the world’s first 8b, the world’s first 8b+, the world’s first 8c and, with Action Directe in Frankenjura, the world’s first 9a. A truly visionary figure, his influence extends well beyond...

The Combined Boulder & Lead discipline has been won by Janja Garnbret and Jakob Schubert.

Live streaming from Munich of the new Olympic format, Boulder & Lead (B&L) combined that will be used at the Olympic Games Paris 2024. Women compete on Wednesday, Men on Thursday.

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.

Both Anna Hazlett and Tom Randall have repeated The Quarryman, the Johnny Dawes classic located in the Dinorwig slate quarries above Llanberis in North Wales.

Polish rock climber Aleksandra Taistra has made the first repeat of Oltreconfine on Monte Ginnircu in Sardinia, established by Fabio Palma, Matteo Della Bordella and Domenico Soldarini in 2006 and 2007.

Interview with German alpinist David Göttler who at 9:45am on 21 May 2022 reached the summit of Everest without supplementary oxygen. This is the 43-year-old's sixth 8000er, after Gasherbrum II, Broad Peak, Dhaulagiri, Lhotse and Makalu.

After a two-year stop, the Sellaronda Skimarathon will take place in the Italian Dolomites tomorrow. As per usual the most famous night ski mountaineering competition will cross four mountain passes, Campolongo, Pordoi, Sella and Gardena and cover a total distance of 42 kilometers and +2700m altitude gain.