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The video of Jacopo Larcher and Siebe Vanhee repeating Le Voyage, France’s hardest trad climb located at Annot.

Live streaming of the European Climbing Championships Munich 2022.

The video of Stefano Ghisolfi making first attempts on Ratstaman Vibrations, the route at Céüse bolted by Chris Sharma and freed by Alex Megos at the end of July.

Scottish rock climber William Bosi has made the first ascent of Honey Badger, an 8C+ boulder problem at Badger Cove in the Peak District, UK.

In September 2021 Gianluca Vighetti, aged a mere 12 years old, managed to climb the 9a TCT at Gravere in Italy.

Four Hungarian mountaineers, Laszlo Szasz, Bence Kerekes, Marton Nagy and Viktor Agoston, made the first ascent of the hitherto Bondit Peak in Pakistan. The four climbers summited 5980m in pure alpine style via the NE Ridge (1500m, 80°, WI 4).

The video of Edu Marín and his father Novato Marin making an early repeat of Pan Aroma on Cima Ovest di Lavaredo, Tre Cime di Lavaredo, Dolomites, carried out in July 2014.

The videos of Swissman Cédric Lachat repeating Yeah Man at Gastlosen with Melissa Le Nevé and Zahir on Wendenstöcke with Fabien Dugit.

On Friday 5 August French rock climber Sébastien Bouin made the third ascent of the 9b+ Change at Flatanger, first ascended by Adam Ondra in 2012 and repeated by Stefano Ghisolfi in 2020.

The film Free as can be by Samuel Crossley, documenting American climber Mark Hudon's lifelong goal of free climbing El Capitan.

Peter Manhartsberger and Florian Wenter have made the first ascent of AramsamsAnna (6c+, 150m), a new multi-pitch rock climb on Pilastro di Misurina in the Cadini Group of the Italian Dolomites.

From 20 to 24 July 2022 Italian alpinists Matteo Della Bordella and Marco Majori established Valore Alpino, a new route on Siula Grande (6344m) in Peru.

At Céüse in France Alexander Megos has made the first ascent of Ratstaman Vibrations, a project bolted by Chris Sharma over a decade ago. The German climber believes the climb checks in the 9b grade range.

On Uli Biaho Spire (5620m) in the Trango Towers region of Pakistan’s Karakorum the Italian alpinists Alessandro Baù, Leonardo Gheza and Francesco Ratti have established Refrigerator Off-Width. The 510m new route up the mountain’s East Face was climbed alpine style and is graded 7a, A2, M5.

Alik Berg and Quentin Roberts have established a new route on Nevado Jirishanca (6094m) in Peru. The complex line is called Reino Hongo and graded 5.8/90°/M7.

Italian mountaineers François Cazzanelli, Pietro Picco and Jerome Perruquet summited K2 on 28 July 2022. The three climbed the second highest mountain in the world without supplementary oxygen, and all are now safely in base camp.