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This April French alpinists Benjamin Védrines and Léo Billon climbed the three great north faces of the Alps in less than a week. Védrines enchained the Eiger, Matterhorn and Grandes Jorasses without using motorised transport.

On 9 April 2025 British climber Jim Pope made the coveted second ascent of 'Grandad's Slab' at Burbage South in the Peak District, England. The gritstone trad climb was first ascended by Pete Whittaker in 2008.

American rock climber Brooke Raboutou has become the first woman in the world to climb 9b+ with her redpoint of 'Excalibur' at Arco, Italy. Established by Stefano Ghisolfi in 2023 and repeated by Will Bosi in February 2025, this fierce, intense overhang stands as one of the hardest sport climbs...

In April 2024 on Mt. Taoujdad in the Taghia Gorge in Morocco Luca Caldini and Lorenzo Gadda made the first ascent of 'Testa o Croce'.

Interview with American climber Katie McKinstry Stylos who on 18 March 2025 made the first female ascent of 'Parallel World' in the Tomorrow's World cave on Marmolada, Dolomites, Italy. Stylos climbed the 60m horizontal roof Yaniro style.

The video of Chris Sharma establishing the 9a deep water solo 'Black Pearl' in Mallorca, Spain.

Luca Vallata reports about a climbing trip to the Hoggar massif in Algeria. With Richard Felderer and Federico Martinelli the trio repeated and established several routes; the standout climb was the first ascent of 'Les Hommes Bleus' on Dôme de l'Éléphant in the Tesnou group.

Interview with Pietro Bassotto, the 61-year-old Italian climber who recently made the first ascent of 'Mata Leao' (8c+) at the La Terrazza crag in Novalesa, Val di Susa, Italy.

The report by Andrea Schiavo about the first ascent of 'Polvere di Stelle', a 'fun new multi-pitch sport climb established ground-up' with Cesare Lotti on the compact grey slabs of Torre Grigia of Monte Brento in the Sarca valley, Arco, Italy.

In early February 2025 the Italians Domenico Mottarella and Marco Zanchetta made the first ascent of "El Diedro de lo Squalupo" in the Cochamó Valley in Chile. The climb is located at Sector de Mamón in the La Paloma valley.

On his first visit to Buoux in France Alexander Megos repeated a slew of classic testpieces. His standout ascent is a flash of ‘Agincourt’, the historic 8c established by Ben Moon in 1989.

From 17 to 21 February 2025, French climber Benjamin Védrines completed a solo winter ascent of the BASE route on the West Face of the Drus in the Mont Blanc massif.

Slovenian rock climber Janja Garnbret has completed her third 8c onsight, 'Popolni mrk' at Misja pec in Slovenia.

Austrian climber Eva Hammelmüller has repeated 'Esclatamàsters' (9a) at Perles in Spain.

Stefano Ghisolfi has repeated 'The Full Journey', the 9b at Margalef in Spain first climbed in 2022 by Alex Megos.

Interview with Swedish climber Hannes Puman after his free ascent of 'The Nose' on El Capitan in Yosemite via what is known as the Schnaz Variation.