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Italian climbers Pietro Vidi and Alessandro Larcher have successfully made a free ascent of 'Joy Division' (800m, 8b), on Mount Qualido in Val Di Mello, Italy. The pair redpointed the first pitch, graded 8b, after having free climbed the rest of the route.

Massimo Sacchi and Marco Sterni have rebolted 'La bellezza non conosce paura', their small masterpiece established ground-up in 1997 on monte Robon in the Julian Alps, Italy

On the 31st of July, Aurélia Lanoë and Silvia Loreggian set off from Ventimiglia in NW Italy on their 'South 6 project'. The idea is to cross the Alps by bike from the west to east and free climb six major south faces: Corno Stella, Mont Blanc, Wenden, Rätikon, Marmolada,...

Swiss climber Jonas Schild, climbing with Thomas Schmid, has made a rare free ascent of 'Joy Division', the 800m 8b on monte Qualido in Val di Mello, Italy. Established in 2004 by Simone Pedeferri, even today it is considered one of the hardest granite multi-pitches in Europe. Schild provides the...

On 27 June 2025, Luca Fois embarked on '86 Dolomites', the ambitious project to link all 86 peaks over 3,000 meters in the Dolomites in a single continuous effort. The 40-year-old Italian is joined by a team of experts comprised of Giuseppe Obinu, Emanuele Chessa and Michael Turconi.

Berni Rivadossi and Giorgio Consiglio, helped by Ale Zaina and Max Faletti, have established 'Mona Lisa', a new multipitch sports climb on monte Gallo on the outskirts of Palermo in Sicily.

On 10/06/2025 German climber Lara Neumeier successfully repeated 'Silbergeier', the Beat Kammerlander masterpiece recognised as one of the most famous hard multi-pitch routes in the Alps.

One year after launching the Conserva Puchegüín campaign to acquire and protect 133,000 hectares (329,000 acres) in Patagonia's Cochamo valley, support for from donors around the world has surpassed US$45 million. Also referred to as the 'Yosemite of South America', in 2023 a petition quickly garnered over 99,000 signatures...

Earlier today, Cristian Brenna lost his life on the monte Biaina ridge. The Italian was one of the world's most talented climbers of the 1990s and early 2000s.

In Sardinia, Italy, a group of mountain guides and aspirant guides have re-bolted the multi-pitch climbs 'L’ombra della mia mano' on Punta Cusidore, 'Legittimo bastardo' and 'Stella di Sangue' on Bruncu Nieddu and 'Sguercia' on monte Uddè, as well as 4 climbs at the crag monte Maccione crag. Matteo Canova,...

Two new fastest known times have been set on Mont Blanc: Èlise Poncet ascended from the church to the summit and back in 6:54, while Benjamin Védrines, via a different route, required 4 hours and 54 minutes.

Giuseppe Bagattoli, Andrea Calzà, Giampaolo Calzà and Omar Oprandi have completed 'Spina' on the central face of monte Colodri at Arco in Valle del Sarca, Italy. Giampaolo 'Trota' Calzà reports about the first ascent of the climb dedicated to Mauro Giovanazzi 'Spina' who perished in an avalanche in 2013.

On Saturday 26 April a Swiss private plane landed and took off next to ski mountaineers ascending toward Capanna Margherita in the monte Rosa massif. The reckless maneuver could easily have ended in tragedy.

This April French alpinists Benjamin Védrines and Léo Billon climbed the three great north faces of the Alps in less than a week. Védrines enchained the Eiger, Matterhorn and Grandes Jorasses without using motorised transport.

On 7 March 2025, Emanuele Andreozzi and Stefano Falezza made what is likely to be the first winter ascent of 'Via Dell’Eva-Taddei' on the north face of Cima Busazza (Presanella, Italy). The summer climb, first ascended in 1969 and originally graded V+, was reinterpreted by Andreozzi and Falezza in a...

An all-woman team comprised of Julia Cassou, Rocío Rodríguez Guiñazú, Fay Manners, Caroline North and Belén Prados spent five weeks in Northern Patagonia's Río Turbio IV valley, where they made the first ascent of 'Apollo 13' on the previously unclimbed El Cohete peak. Manners reports.