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Italian mountaineers Nicola Castagna and Gabriel Perenzoni are currently climbing all 82 peaks over 4,000m in the Alps. Having set off on 4 May 2021, the two aspirant mountain guides have already climbed 30 mountains as part of their project called Altavia 4000.

Scottish climber William Bosi has repeated Northern Lights 9a at Kilnsey, England.

interview with 28-year-old Canadian rock climber Bronwyn Hodgins who this spring made a free ascent of the 5.13a big wall Golden Gate on El Capitan in Yosemite.

Watch Italian climber Stefano Ghisolfi at Céüse in France making his first attempts on Bibliographie, the second 9c in the world established in 2020 by Alex Megos.

On 4 May 2021 Swiss mountain guide Jonas Schild repeated Bain de Sang, the classic 9a at Saint Loup in Switzerland first ascended by Fred Nicole in 1993.

Reel Rock have released remastered footage of Margo Hayes climbing Biographie at Céüse in France in 2017

Alessandro Larcher reports about his greenpoint ascent of Bombo Balla at Bus de Vela above Trento, Italy. Put in other words, the Italian rock climber repeated the 8b+ sport climb in October 2020 skipping the bolts and as a trad climb.

At Gravere in Piedmont, Italy, Claudia Ghisolfi and Giorgio Tomatis have both redpointed L'extrema cura plus 8c+. Tomatis also managed to flash the 8c Extrema cura.

interview by Maurizio Oviglia with American rock climber Jenny Fischer.

Video interview with Swiss crack climbing legend Didier Berthod

The video of Sébastien Bouin at Eaux Claires repeating Hugh the first 9a in France put up by Fred Rouhling in 1993.

At Andonno in Italy 24-year-old climber Claudia Ghisolfi has repeated Noia, the legendary 8c+ established in 1993 by Severino Scassa.

interview with mountain guide Hermann Comploj who on 24/03/2021 made the first ski descent of the North Couloir on Col Turont (2419m) in Langental / Vallunga, Dolomites, Italy.

An ordinary day of Belgian climber Nicolas Favresse, for the last 20 years one of the driving forces in the climbing world, seen through the eyes of Jan Novak.

On 23 March 2021 at Margalef in Spain Alex Megos repeated Mejorando Imagen, a route freed in 2013 by Ramón Julián Puigblanque for which the German climber now proposes 9b instead of the 9a originally put forward by the Spaniard.

The video of Jacopo Larcher & James Pearson in conversation about Tribe at Cadarese, a contender for the hardest trad route in the world.