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The video of Tom Livingstone and Christophe Dumarest repeating No Siesta on the north face of the Grandes Jorasses.

On 18/12/2022 Greg Boswell and Guy Robertson made the first ascent of Vortex X,10, a testing new winter climb on Cul Mor in NW Scotland

Adam Ondra has completed the first free ascent of Příklepový strop, a historic aid line in the Macocha cave at Moravský Kras, Czechia. The 5-pitch multipitch now checks in at 8b+ max.

25-year-old Belgian climber Simon Lorenzi has made the fourth ascent of Alphane, the 9A boulder problem at Chironico in Switzerland first ascended by Shawn Raboutou in April 2022 and repeated in October by Aidan Roberts and Will Bosi.

The call of the Siren, the film by Fulvio Mariani which documents the Greenland climbing adventures of Matteo Della Bordella, Silvan Schüpbach and Symon Welfringer, is online until 26 December.

German climber Moritz Welt has made the first ascent of a former Markus Bock project at Schiefer Tod in the Frankenjura, calling it Lazarus and grading it 9a+.

Paralpinism in the Dolomites: on 02/11/2022 Marco Milanese made a free solo and base jump from Torre Delago (2790m), one of the major Vajolet Towers in the Rosengarten massif, Italy.

Watch Shawn Raboutou and Magnus Midtbø bouldering at Brione in Switzerland.

At Kochel am See in Germany Martina Demmel has repeated Heim nach Afrika (9a) and Chaos in Palumbia (8c+) at Atlantiswand.

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.

In 2011 Alex Honnold completed a bold ropeless ascent of The Phoenix (5.13) in Yosemite. In this video Reel Rock filmmaker Peter Mortimer explains this free solo from his exclusive point of view.

On 13/12/2022 Stefano Ghisolfi made the first repeat of Bombardino 9a+ at Arco.

On 24/11/2022 at Magic Wood in Switzerland American climber Siara Fabbri repeated New Base Line, the classic 8B+ boulder problem established by Bernd Zangerl.

On 10/12/2022 the two South Tyrolean mountain guides Simon Gietl and Andrea Oberbacher made the first ascent of Avatar, a new mixed climb up the NW Face of Sasso Pordoi in the Dolomites.

The trailer to The Dodos!, a Reel Rock Unlimited Original Series featuring Sean Villanueva O’Driscoll, Nico Favresse, Jean-Louis Wertz and Aleksej Jaruta climbing in Greenland.

Greg Boswell and Guy Robertson have made the first winter ascent of Nihilist IX 9 at Lochnagar in Scotland.