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Interview with Austrian climber Beat Kammerlander after the first free ascent of his alpine sports climb Kampfzone (8c) in the Rätikon massif.

At Mallorca in Spain American rock climber Chris Sharma has made the First Ascent of Big Fish, an extremely high Deep Water Solo (DWS) climb rated 8c+/9a.

Belgium's Anak Verhoeven has made the First Ascent of 'Sweet Neuf' at Pierrot Beach in France, a sports climb she believes is 9a+. Should the grade be confirmed, Verhoeven becomes only the second woman to have climbed 9a+ and the...

The brothers Iker Pou and Eneko Pou, together with Manu Ponce and Pedro Galán, have made the First Ascent of two new rock climbs in Peru: Yaku Mama (7a+ / 185 m) next to the Gocta Falls in Amazonia, and...

From 5 to 21 July 2017 Catalan alpinist Sílvia Vidal made the solo First Ascent of 'Un pas més' (A4 / A4+, 6a, 530 m) up the West Face of Xanadu (Arrigetch Peaks, Alaska).

The first 9c sports climb in the world freed by Adam Ondra last Sunday at Flatanger in Norway has lost its 'Project Hard' status and now has official name: Silence. Ondra explains why and, indirectly, provides insight about his own...

Interview with Italian climber Gabriele Moroni who on 02/09/2017 in Val Noasca (Valle dell’Orco, Italy) pulled off the first repeat of 29 dots, the difficult highball boulder problem freed in 2015 by Austria’s Bernd Zangerl.

Interview with Czech climber Adam Ondra who on 3 September 2017 at Flatanger in Norway made the first free ascent of his Project Hard, a sport climb which the 24-year-old has graded 9c. Should this be confirmed, then the 45m...

The report by Lisi Steurer who teamed up with Hannes Pfeifhofer to make the First Ascent of Hakuna Matata (400m, 8a), a new multi-pitch rock climb up the South Face of Taè (Spalti di Col Becchei), Dolomites.

In July the Swiss alpinists Thomas Senf and Martin Reber made the First Ascent of Freudenschreck (6a+, 485 m), a new rock climbing up the SW ridge of Schreckhorn (4078 m), Bernese Oberland, Switzerland.

The video of American climber Chris Sharma making the First Ascent of his difficult deep water solo at Pont d’Arc in Ardèche, France..

The trip report by Simon Richardson who from 4 - 6 August together with Michael Rinn made the First Ascent of Game of Thrones (ED2, 1250m), the first route up the South-West Face of Monarch Mountain (3572m) in the Coast...

In July 2017 the Italian climbers Matteo de Zaiacomo, Dimitri Anghileri and Marco Maggioni belonging to the Ragni di lecco climbing club made the First Ascent of Rivotra Mahery (strong wind) a new 700 meter rock climb with difficulties up...

Between 2016 and 2017 a series of new rock climbs were first ascended on the Lofoten Islands, Norway, by the Spanish climbers Guille Cuadrado, Gerber Cucurell, Pau Gómez, Jordi Esteve and Felix Queipo established up peaks Marklitinden, Storskiva, Merraflestinden and...

Giovanni Giarletta reports about the First Ascent of Via Napoleone, a new climb in remote Val Torrone high above Val Masino, initiated by Manuele Panzeri and Pietro Tentori about nine years ago and completed this August.

The report by Pietro Radassao who at Frosolone (Molise, Central Italy) made the First Ascent of 'Iron Moon', a sport climb for which the Italian climber suggests 8c+/9a.