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On 22 July 2026, Australian athlete Milly Young established a new Fastest Known Time on the Matterhorn (4,478m), climbing the Lion's Ridge from Cervinia to the summit and back in 5 hours, 17 minutes and 43 seconds.

Over a period of 5 days at the start of July 2026 American alpinists Eli Spitulnik and Michael Telstad made the first ascent of Hologram Wall on Kichatna Spire in Alaska. This is the first route to ascend directly up mountain's formidable South face, and comes after a previous attempt...

Simon Richardson reports about two possible new climbs above Val Ferret on south side of the Mont Blanc massif established with Michael Rinn: the SW Spur (500m, D) of P3654m, between Aiguille de Leschaux and Mont Greuvetta, and Zahn der Zeit (The Ravages of Time, 450m, D+) on the previously...

British climber James Pearson has made a free solo ascent of 'Legacy' at Rocklands, South Africa. Graded 9a as sports climb, it has now been rated 8B+ highball. Pearson, on a roll after repeating 'The Finnish Line' (8C), provides the details.

At Rodellar in Spain Laura Rogora has onsighted her third 8c+, 'Così fan tutte'. Success comes during an astounding week that also netted her the 9a+ 'No pain no gain' and 'Patanics'.

On 30 June 2026 Andrzej Bargiel skied Nanga Parbat (8126m) without supplementary oxygen. The 38-year-old Polish ski mountaineer skied an unbroken line from summit to snowline via the Diamir Face.

On 29/06/2026 the Italian mountain guides Niccolò Bruni and Ezio Marlier made the first ascent of 'President Evil', a 150m multipitch climb on Rognon Vaudano in the Mont Blanc massif.

At the Transatlantico wall in the Sarca Valley close to Arco, Italy, Matteo Faletti and Matteo Pavana have opened the multipitch climb 'Queen Mary'. The climbers from Povo (Trento) bolted the route ground-up over the course of two half-days between 2025 and 2026, and freed it on 11 June this...

0, 2, 4 litres per minute... a closer look at the flow of supplementary oxygen and the much‑debated "records" on Everest and in the Himalayas. By Alessandro Filippini.

Last weekend at Passo della Presolana, Italy, Laura Rogora sent 'Black Shadow' (8c), 'Dancing in the Moon' (8c+) and 'Moon Landing' (9a).

American alpinists Sean McLane and Vitaliy Musiyenko have made the first ascent of the unclimbed SW Ridge of Balakun (6,471m). The pair were in the Indian Himalaya with Christian Black, who was forced to turned around a few hours into the ascent. While it is unclear whether this was also...

Whilst a record number of 1,008 climbers climbed to the summit of Everest in spring 2026, the undisputed stars of the pre-monsoon season in the Himalayas are undoubtedly Bartek Ziemski and Hillary Dawa Sherpa. By Alessandro Filippini.

South Korean climber Sung Su Lee has repeated Dreamcatcher (9a) in Squamish, Canada.

Italian climber Stefano Ghisolfi has redpointed 'Ratstaman Vibrations' at Ceuse. This is his 12th 9b and comes in the wake of four 8C boulder problems sent earlier this spring.

On 6 June 2026 Janja Garnbret made the first female ascent of 'Bibliographie' (9b+) at Céüse in France. In doing so the 27-year-old Slovenian has become only the second woman in the world to climb 9b+, after Brooke Raboutou sent 'Excalibur' at Arco in April 2025.

On 26 May 2026 Matthias Giraud completed the first ski BASE Jump off Aiguille du Plan North Face. The 42-year-old French alpinist reports about 'the ultimate combination of alpinism, steep skiing and BASE jumping.'