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On the Pilastro della Tofana di Rozes in the dolomites Massimo Da Pozzo, Natasha Alexander and Samuele Majoni have made the first ascent of Spigolo Sam (6c, 500m circa).

On 9 April Fabio Failla, and Angelo La Rosa established Aragorn, a new route up the Torri di Canolo. Fabio Failla provides details of "the dolomites of Southern Italy"

On 13/03/2012 Silvestro and Tomas Franchini established Via Fratelli e Cortelli, a new route up Cima Pietragrande in the Brenta dolomites.

In winter 2011-12 Manuel Stuflesser and Martin Riegler established Schirata (XI-, 235m), a new route up Piz Ciavazes (Sella, dolomites). The report by Stuflesser.

On 25-26/02/2012 Alessandro Baù and Enrico Geremia carried out the first repeat, and first winter ascent, of the route Andamento Lento in Val Scura (dolomites), established by Gigi Dal Pozzo, Maurizio Fontana and Venturino De Bona in 1997. The report by Alessandro Baù.

On 24 March 2012 Maurizio "Manolo" Zanolla made the first ascent of Roby Present (35m, proposed grade 8c+/9a) in Val Noana (Pale di San Martino, dolomites). Established by Manolo, the route is dedicated to his friend Roberto Bassi.

From 25 - 27 January 2012 Luca Giupponi, Rolando Larcher and Fabio Leoni carried out the first winter ascent (and first on-sight) of Via Cembridge (550m, 7b+ (6c obligatory) up Cima Margherita, Brenta dolomites, Italy.

From 15 - 16 March 2012 Simon Gietl and Roger Schäli carried out the first winter traverse of the Tre Cime di Lavaredo in the dolomites. The report by Simon Gietl.

On 17/03/2012 at Pian Schiavaneis (dolomites) Angelika Rainer redpointed her first 8b+, Non mollare.

In February the Czech climber Lucie Hrozovà repeated Illuminati (dolomites, Italy) together with Mirek Matejc and Palo Rajcan, while in March Mirek Matejc repeated Law and Order (Diebsöfen, Austria).

The South Tyrolean climbers Simon Gietl, Daniel Tavernini and Klaus Gruber have carried out the first winter ascents of ISO2000 (Tre Cime di Lavaredo) and Zauberlehrling (Cima Scotoni) in the dolomites.

The video of the ascent of Chimera verticale by Jakob Schweighofer and Florian Wurm on Mount Civetta, dolomites.

Video interview with emerging Scottish climber Greg Boswell.

Iker Pou has freed Enemigo Público Nº1 8c+/9a) at the Spanish crag Margalef, while at Ilarduia he has freed Harroputza 9a.

Greg Boswell and Charly Fritzer have repeated Illuminati, the difficult mixed route in Val Lunga, dolomites, established by Albert Leichtfried.

With regards to the bolt chopping on Cerro Torre's Compressor route, we have received and published the views of Stefano Lovison, shared by numerous Italian alpinists.