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The report by Italian mountain guide Saro Costa of his Alpin’ Ticino Project, ie the link-up from 19 to 30 October 2024 of the 42 3000-meter mountains in the Ticino Alps in Switzerland. The only mountain not summited, due to too much snow and lack of daylight, was Kastelhorn.

The third edition of 'Baunei, Sport climbing', the compact climbing guidebook by Maurizio Oviglia, has been published by Pietra di Luna Edizioni. One of the best-selling guidebooks to the east coast of Sardinia, Italy, features all the crags in the Baunei area, as well as the multi-pitch climbs on Pedra...

South Tyrolean mountain guide Simon Gietl frees has made the first free ascent of 'Blutsbrüder', the multipitch he established with Vittorio Messini and Matthias Wurzer in autumn 2022 on Torre Trieste in Civetta, Dolomites.

Interview with Austrian climber Barbara Zangerl after her ground-breaking, historic flash ascent of 'Freerider' on El Capitan in Yosemite.

Austrian climber Barbara Zangerl has flashed 'Freerider' (VI 5.13a), making her the first person in history to flash El Capitan, Yosemite, USA.

On 19/11/2024 Giovanni Placci redpointed Erebor at the Eremo di San Paolo crag in Arco, Italy.

PIEPS GmbH announces a voluntary recall for the PIEPS PRO IPS Avalanche Transceiver. Published below is the company's press release.

Gioachino Gobbi, the Italian alpinist and great entrepreneur who in the 1980s relaunched the prestigious Grivel mountain equipment brand, has died aged 79.

During a short visit to Villanueva del Rosario in Spain, 15-year-old Andrea Cheleris from Italy repeated a handful of hard climbs, including the onsight of 'Mundo Feliz' (8b+) and the redpoint of 'Mangarbo natural' (9a+).

Watch Belgian climber Anak Verhoeven sending 'Planta de Shiva' (9b) at Villanueva del Rosario in Spain, May 2024.

Lara Neumeier from Germany and Nemuel Feurle from Austria have repeated ‘El Niño – Pineapple Express’ (800m, 5.13c) on El Capitan in Yosemite, USA.

Slovenian climber Domen Škofic has repeated Chilam Balam (9a+/b) at Villanueva del Rosario in Spain.

Slovakian mountaineer Ondrej Huserka died last week while descending Langtang Lirung in Nepal, shortly after having made the first ascent of the huge East Face with Marek Holeček. Born in 1990, he was widely regarded as one of the leading young alpinists, not only from Slovakia.

The Piolets d'Or 2024 will be awarded to the following climbs: 'The Secret Line' on the north face of Tirich Mir in Pakistan by Kazuya Hiraide and Kenro Nakajima, 'Round Trip Ticket' on the north face of Jannu in Nepal by Matt Cornell, Jackson Marvell, and Alan Rousseau, and 'Tomorrow...

Last summer a small expedition of British climbers composed of Indie Fallowfield, Ben Kent and Chris Moore established a series of new routes on hitherto unclimbed west face of Innaarsuit, west coast of Greenland. The trio reached the world's largest island by sailing boat. Kent provides the details.

The development of Gola di Mikado, a beautiful new sport climbing crag near Capo Pecora in Sardinia, has been completed thanks to a crowdfunding campaign. All the details directly from Maurizio Oviglia, who bolted the routes together with Antonio Iaria and Tatjana Goex