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While Yuji Hirayama has made the First Ascent of his 8c+ project in Japan aged 50, in Spain 30-year-old Sachi Amma has redpointed his third 9b, Stoking the fire at Santa Linya.

On 20/02/2019 Thomas Bubendorfer and Max Sparber made the First Ascent of Die Abenteuer des Augie March up the 500m high north face of Hoher Kasten (3189m) in the Großglockner group in Austria.

The video of Niccolò Ceria and his latest boulder problems climbed across Italy, including his beautiful traverse Curry at Pietra del Toro.

Interview with Jacopo Larcher after his First Ascent of Tribe at Cadarese, Italy on 22 March 2019. The Italian rock climber defined the route as 'the most difficult thing I’ve ever climbed'.

This winter Austrian mountaineer Hansjörg Auer ascended three new ice climbs in the Ötztal valley and made a solo First Ascent up Rofele Wand in the Ötztal Alps.

On the east face of Coulm d'Mez in Switzerland Marco Majori and Davide Terraneo have climbed Cheeky Monkeys, a possible new icefall in the Bernina group.

At Cadarese, Italy, Jacopo Larcher has made the First Ascent of his huge trad project, defining the pitch as 'the most difficult thing I’ve ever climbed'.

On 18/03/2019 America's Nina Williams repeated Too Big to Flail, claiming the first female ascent of this huge highball boulder problem at Buttermilks, Bishop, USA.

American rock climber Dave Graham has repeated the famous sport climb La Rambla. Gonzalo Larrocha also checks in with a repeat of the benchmark 9a+ at Siurana in Spain.

From 17- 19 February 2019 young French alpinists Xavier Cailhol and Symon Welfringer made a winter ascent of Divine Providence up Grand Pilier d’Angle, one of the most famous routes in the Mont Blanc massif.

On 24/02/2019 Giuseppe Vidoni and Gabriele Colomba made the First Ascent of Via degli Allievi up the north face of Cimon della Pala. About 700m high and with difficulties around AI5 M4, this is likely to be a new mixed...

The short film about Beat Kammerlander and the first free ascent of Kampfzone, his 8c alpine sports climb in the Rätikon massif.

At the drytooling crag Bus del Quai (Italy) Polish climber Filip Babicz has made the First Ascent of Uragano Dorato, D15.

Swiss climber Giuliano Cameroni has made the First Ascent of REM, a boulder problem located on the Dreamtime boulder at Cresciano he believes warrants 8C+.

Swiss alpinists Roger Schäli and Bernd Rathmayr have made the First Ascent of Fäderliecht, a new mixed climb at Kandersteg in Switzerland.

At Arco, Italy, yesterday Stefano Ghisolfi made the first repeat of Queen Line, the 9b at the crag Laghel established by Adam Ondra in 2017.