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From 26/12/2024 to 01/01/2025, French alpinists Philippe Bruley, Amaury Fouillade and Baptiste Obino made the first ascent of 'Petit Pont' on the West Face of the Petit Dru in the Mont Blanc massif. The 1000m mixed route has been graded ED 1000m M5 6a A3.

At Cadarese in Italy Pietro Vidi has repeated 'Tribe', one of the most difficult trad climbs in the world, put up in 2019 by Jacopo Larcher.

On 27 December 2024 German alpinist Jost Kobusch, currently attempting his extremely ambitious project of climbing the West Ridge of Everest solo and in winter without O2, reached the unprecedented altitude of 7537m.

Maurizio Oviglia shares the latest news and discusses the curent safety situation of sport crags in Sardinia. This first chapter is dedicated to the wild southwest coast and the crags at Gonnesa, Iglesias, Buggerru and Masua.

American climber Chris Sharma has made the first ascent of 'Vision Quest', a 9a deep water solo on the island of Mallorca.

Spanish rock climber Jorge Diaz-Rullo has repeated 'Stoking the fire', the 9b established in 2013 by Chris Sharma at Santa Linya, Spain.

On 24 April 2024 Andri Bieger, Martin Kogler and Valentin Werner-Tutschku carried out three ski descents on Nevado Chachacomani (6074m) in Bolivia. It is highly likely that these lines have never been skied before.

Climbing with Jamie Lowther from Scotland, Sweden's Hannes Puman has completed a free ascent of 'The Nose' on El Capitan in Yosemite via what is known as the Schnaz Variation.

In the space of just a few weeks American climber Sean Bailey has repeated 'Floatin' at Mizugaki in Japan and 'Alphane' at Chironico in Switzerland

The report by Italian mountain guide Saro Costa of his Alpin’ Ticino Project, ie the link-up from 19 to 30 October 2024 of the 42 3000-meter mountains in the Ticino Alps in Switzerland. The only mountain not summited, due to too much snow and lack of daylight, was Kastelhorn.

Japanese climber Dai Koyamada has made the first ascent of 'Kaikien' at Mt. Kasagi in Japan. Described as 'the best problem here', the boulder has been graded 8C.

Paweł Zieliński has made the first ascent of 'Forza di Polacco', the 170m multipitch he established rope solo on Monte Monaco next to San Vito Lo Capo in Sicily, Italy.

Austrian climber Barbara Zangerl has flashed 'Freerider' (VI 5.13a), making her the first person in history to flash El Capitan, Yosemite, USA.

On 19/11/2024 Giovanni Placci redpointed Erebor at the Eremo di San Paolo crag in Arco, Italy.

During a short visit to Villanueva del Rosario in Spain, 15-year-old Andrea Cheleris from Italy repeated a handful of hard climbs, including the onsight of 'Mundo Feliz' (8b+) and the redpoint of 'Mangarbo natural' (9a+).

American climber Michaela Kiersch has made the first female ascent of Dreamtime, Fred Nicole’s masterpiece at Cresciano hailed as the first 8C boulder problem in the world.