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The two mountain guides Christoph Hainz and Roger Schäli have opened 'Chi non lavora non fa l'amore' (7b, 6b+ obligatory) on the east face of Monte Monaco at San Vito lo Capo in Sicily.

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On 29 November Jacopo Larcher from the south tyrol, Italy repeated the E12 trad climb 'Bon Voyage' (E12) at Annot in France. This is the 4th ascent after James Pearson, Adam Ondra and Seb Berthe.

South Tyrolean climber Filip Schenk has redpointed 'Beginning' (9a+), completing all the hardest routes at the L'Eremo di San Paolo crag near Arco, Italy.

South Tyrolean mountain guide Simon Gietl and Germany's Ines Papert have made the first free ascent of 'Lumina' on the NE Face of Wildgall / Collaspro 3273m, (Rieserferner Group, Tauern Alps). The mixed climb was established solo by Gietl earlier this year.

At the crag Padaro above Arco, Italy, Filip Schenk has repeated 'Omen Nomen' (9a).

On Monte Monaco at San Vito Lo Capo in Sicily Christoph Hainz and Gerda Schwienbacher have made the first ascent of 'Ballo Corallo'. 220m high, max difficulties up to 7a+, described as 'bellissima.'

Between 21 and 23 August 2025, Matteo De Zaiacomo, Chiara Gusmeroli and Davide Nesa established the new route 'Less is More' on the previously unclimbed northwest face of Shawa Kangri. Davide Nesa reports about the expedition to the Rangtik Valley in the Zanskar region of India.

Michael Piccolruaz from the south tyrol, Italy, reports about his repeat of 'Es Pontas' on the island of Mallorca

On 20/09/2025 Titus Prinoth completed a trad ascent of Menhir, the legendary route established by Christof Hainz in 1992 and freed a year later by Hanspeter Eisendle on the Menhir Pillar at the Mëisules dala Beisces (Sella, Dolomites). The 27-year-old South Tyrolean alpinist reports about his greenpoint ascent of this...

Michele Caminati reports about the first ascent of 'Clean Corner' on Pfattner Wände close to Bolzano in Val d'Adige, south tyrol, Italy, established with Luca de Giorgi.

On 12/04/2025 Simon Gietl completed the solo first ascent of 'Lumina' (M7 A0, 300m) on the NE Face of Wildgall / Collaspro 3273m, (Rieserferner Group, Tauern Alps). The 40-year-old mountain guide from south tyrol, Italy, reports about his mixed climb up this "wonderfully beautiful pillar."

The Provincial Council of Bolzano in the south tyrol, Italy, has unanimously approved a bill to modify the management of inalienable heritage in mountainous areas of historical, cultural, or landscape value above an altitude of 1,600 meters. The opinion of an expert committee composed of provincial offices, the AVS (Alpine...

Last August, the Italians Daniele Bonzi, Francesco Fumagalli and Thomas Triboli travelled to the Fox Jaw Cirque in East Greenland, where they completed the first traverse of the first three towers: Baby Molar, Molar, and Incisor. Named 'Trident VI Orobica', the route involves 1,000 metres of climbing over 21 pitches,...

On 19/01/2025 Simon Messner and Philipp Prünster made the first ascent of the icefall '4Matic' (WI5, 300m) on the Laaser Ferner Wand in the Lasa Valley, a side valley of the Vinschgau valley in south tyrol, Italy. Messner reports.