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From 8 - 10 March 2026 Silvan Schüpbach, Olivier Kolly, Filippo Sala made the first ascent of 'Zébu' (M8+, 70°, 1100m) on the Northwest Face of Klein Fiescherhorn (Ochs) in the Bernese Alps in Switzerland. The mixed climb shares the same start as the only other route on the face,...

On 7 March 2026 Radoslav Groh from the Czech Republic and Juraj Koreň from Slovakia made the first ascent of the mixed climb 'Kaiser Direct' (500m, M7) up the south face of the Grossglockner, at 3798m the highest mountain in Austria. Koreň reports.

From 6 to 8 March 2026 Italian alpinists Alessandro Baù and Mirco Grasso completed the winter traverse of all the summits on the famous skyline of the Tre Cime di Lavaredo in the Dolomites. Carried out with two bivouacs, this is the first complete winter enchainment of these nine famous...

Matteo Della Bordella's report on the repeat of the 'Gogna-Cerutti' route on the Matterhorn, climbed on 7–8 March 2026 with Giacomo Mauri. The famous route was established up the mountain's north face from 14 to 17 July 1969 by Leo Cerruti and Alessandro Gogna.

From 4-6 March 2026, Giuseppe Vidoni made a winter solo ascent of the combo 'Padre Pio' and 'Une Échelle Vers le Ciel' on the south face of the Matterhorn. The report from the 31-year-old Italian mountain guide, who had not climbed these routes before.

The film Eternal Solo that documents the first rope-solo of 'Eternal Flame' on on Nameless Tower (6251m) in the Trango Tower group in Pakistan carried out by Stefano Ragazzo in summer 2024.

On 5-6 March 2026 South Tyrolean alpinist Simon Gietl made a rope-solo winter ascent of 'Das Phantom der Zinne' on the north face of Cima Grande, Tre Cime di Lavaredo, Dolomites, Italy.

From 2-3 March 2026 French alpinists Melvin Bou, Kilian Moni and Étienne Poteaux made the first ascent of 'Y’a comme un pecker dans la soupe' (420m, M8/A2) on the north face of Aiguille Orientale du Soreiller in the Écrins massif.

From 25-26 February 2026 Charles Dubouloz made a solo ascent of the west face of Pic d'Ossau in the Pyrenees. In doing so the 36-year-old French alpinist has completed his winter trilogy which includes 'Divine Providence' in the Mont-Blanc massif and the 'Gamma route' on the Barre des Écrins.

Vincent Landry reports about 'La Pomme d'Adam', a mixed variation added with Frédéric Maltais to the classic ice climb 'La Pomme d’Or' in the Hautes-Gorges-de-la-Rivière-Malbaie National Park in Quebec, Canada.

Silvestro Franchini recounts the first ascent of 'La via che non c'è' (M5/5+, 400m) on the northwest face of Cima Brenta in the Brenta Dolomites. Established with his brother Tomas Franchini on 02/06/2012, it is considered by many to be one of the most beautiful mixed climbs in the entire...

On 22/01/2026, on the north face of Cima Busazza in the Adamello – Presanella Group, Emanuele Andreozzi and Ruggero Samaden opened the mixed route 'Out Of The Blue'. Andreozzi reports.

The video of the first BASE jump off Fitz Roy (Cerro Chaltén) in Patagonia, carried out on 7 January 2026 by Russian alpinists Boris Egorov, Vladimir Murzaev, Konstantin Yaemurd

On 13/01/2026, Tine Cuder, Filip Princi and Miloš Milanović made the first ascent of 'Bratstvo v cepinih', a new mixed climb in the Loška Koritnica valley in the Triglav National Park in the Julian Alps of Slovenia.

The film Chasing Shadows tells the compelling journey of Benjamin Védrines on K2. After an initial attempt where tragedy was narrowly avoided, Védrines is more determined than ever to achieve an extraordinary feat: climb the world's second highest mountain in a single day, without supplementary oxygen, and fly down by...

On Tête aux Chamois at Glacier 3000 in Switzerland's Bernese Oberland, Melanie Grünwald and Fay Manners made the first ascent of the mixed climb 'Elles Aussi' (M7+ A0).