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Austrian climber Barbara Zangerl is the recipient of the Paul Preuss Prize 2025. Awarded in memory of the bold Austrian alpinist, past winners are Reinhold Messner, Hanspeter Eisendle, Albert Precht, Hansjörg Auer, Alexander Huber, Beat Kammerlander, Bernd Arnold, Heinz Mariacher, Catherine Destivelle, Thomas Huber, Marko Prezelj and Dani Arnold

Watch Jacopo Larcher and Barbara Zangerl making the first repeat of 'the gift' (8c, 350m) on the Drusenfluh the Rätikon massif in Austria, summer 2024.

Nemuel Feurle, Jacopo Larcher and Babara Zangerl have all repeated 'Seventh Direction' in the Rätikon, Austria. The 220m 8c multipitch on Drusenfluh was first ascended in 2022 by Alex Luger.

The preliminary details of the climbing expedition to Greenland by Matteo Della Bordella, Symon Welfringer, Silvan Schüpbach and Alex Gammeter, which resulted in the first ascent of 'Odissea Borealis' (1200m, 35 pitches, 7b) on the hitherto unclimbed NW Face of Drøneren

Jacopo Larcher and Barbara Zangerl have made the first repeats of 'the gift' (8c, 350m) on the Drusenfluh the Rätikon massif in Austria.

20 years ago today, on April 28, 2004, the great French climber and mountaineer Patrick Berhault died while attempting to complete the 82 4000ers of the Alps in 82 days. The tribute by his friend Alessandro Grillo.

Climbing video: Alexander Luger making the first ascent of the gift (8c, 350m) on the Drusenfluh the Rätikon massif in Austria in 2015.

In August 2015 on the Drusenfluh the Rätikon massif in Austria Alexander Luger made the first ascent of the gift (8c, 350m).

Interview with British climber Steve Haston after his recent first ascent of Descente Lolitta at the Grotte de Sabart in Ariege, France.

On December 5 the warehouse in which Alpinist housed its inventory burnt to the ground. The magazine has now launched an appeal to its readers.