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From 25 to 27 April 2026 Italian alpinists Luca Ducoli, Mirco Grasso and Giacomo Mauri completed a dream link-up on Mont Blanc, combining the famous 'Divine Providence' on Grand Pilier d'Angle with the 'Central Pillar of Frêney'. Grasso reports about this extraordinarily enchainment.

Melloblocco 2026, the world's largest bouldering and climbing meeting, begins this week and will take place in Val di Mello – Val Masino from 6 to 9 May 2026. You can register online at www.melloblocco.it until 6:00 PM today to secure the bag with the boulder map, gadgets, and the...

The video of American climber Connor Herson establishing 'Drifter’s Escape' at Squamish in Canada. Graded 9a+, this is as the world's first trad climb of this difficulty.

Chinese teenager Yicheng Zhao has set the new men’s Speed record lowering the world’s best time to 4.58s.

Cleaning a sport climb with dubious lower-offs, or retreating from a route with questionable protection, can sometimes be dangerous. UIAA mountain guide Jan Schneider from Germany illustrates a technique using a Prusik loop that increases safety while retrieving climbing gear.

Watch Adam Ondra climb Die Vertreibung der letzten Idealisten on the Nonnengärtner sandstone towers in the river Elbe River Valley in Saxony, Germany. 8c ground‑up, without chalk and 'one of the most meaningful climbing experiences I’ve had.'

Canadian climber Will Stanhope has died as a result of a climbing accident in Squamish, British Columbia. Aged 39, the certified mountain guide was regarded as one of North America's leading rock climbers.

French alpinists Samuel Equy and Mathéo Jacquemoud have set a new Chamonix - Mont Blanc round trip record, stopping the clock after 4 hours 41 minutes. In doing so they beat the previous Fastest Known Time by 2 minutes, set by William Boffelli in June 2025.

The Ulsan Ulju Mountain Film Festival (UMFF) has announced Bernadette McDonald as the recipient of the 2026 Ulsan Ulju Mountain Culture Award. McDonald is an acclaimed author and researcher whose decades-long work in mountain literature and cinema has advanced global mountain culture. The 11th Ulsan Ulju Mountain Film Festival will...

The anticipation is building for this year's Melloblocco, scheduled from 6 to 9 May 2026 in Val di Mello - Val Masino, Italy. .With just two weeks to go, organisers have now released the program for thebiggest bouldering and climbing meeting in the world.

Watch South Tyrolean climber Jacopo Larcher repeating 'Bon Voyage', the E12 trad climb at Annot in France first ascended by James Pearson in 2023.

On 21 April 2026 French climber Oriane Bertone sent Kheops (8B) and Gecko assis (8B+) in Fontainebleau.

The report by mountain guide Giancarlo Maritano of a short ski touring trip in Norway, not to the more famous Lofoten Islands and the Tromsø area, but to the Nordland county. Based in Narvik, the group skied the peaks of Rivtind (1452m), Storfjellet (1633m), Nevertind (1420m) and Spanstinden (1457m), discovering...

The classic Patrouille des Glaciers ski mountaineering competition took place in the Swiss Alps from April 13th–19th and was won by the French teams comprised of Axelle Gachet Mollaret, Margot Ravinel and Célia Perrillat Pessy, and Xavier Gachet, Samuel Equy, and William Bon Mardion. Organised by the Swiss Army, the...

From 3 to 6 April 2026, French alpinists Pierre Girot, Kilian Moni, Hugo Peruzzo and Arthur Poindefert established 'Jorassique Pâques' on the Grandes Jorasses in the Mont Blanc massif. Graded ED+ M7 A3, the 1100-metre route climbs to Pointe Whymper on the north face. Poindefert reports.

The steep walls of Osp in Slovenia will host the Janez Jeglič – Johan Memorial competition, in memory of the famous Slovenian mountaineer who perished on Nupste in 1997. Scheduled from 7- 9 May 2026, the event is accepting applications from international climbers