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Tom Hornbein, the formidable American mountaineer famous above all for his groundbreaking First Ascent of the West Ridge of Everest in 1963 with Willi Unsoeld, has died aged 92.

The report by Simon Kehrer who with Christoph Hainz made the First Ascent of the mixed climb Bella Ramponella in Val dal Sé, a side valley to Val dai Tamersc, Fanis, Dolomites.

Climbing in the Kichatna Spires of Alaska, on 19 April 2023 American Mountain Guides Joseph Hobby (34) and Zach Lovell (30) made what is believed to be the First Ascent of the stunning NW Face of Citadel via their 'Borealis...

Nicola Bertoldo, Diego Dellai and Marco Toldo belonging to the Roccia 4 Gatti di Arsiero mountaineering club have climbed the enormous icefall located inside the Brezno pod Velbom cave, at an altitude of 2050m on the Slovenian side of Monte...

On 14 and 15 of April 2023 Jack Cramer, Tad McCrea, Vitaliy Musienko made the First Ascent of Troll Toll (600m, M5) on the ENE Face of Mount Morrison in California, USA. Located in the Sherwin Range of the Sierra...

French climber Loïc Zehani has made the First Ascent of Mossoul 9b/b+ at Orgon.

24-year-old climber from Italy, Stefano Carnati, has repeated Erebor at Eremo di San Paolo close to Arco, Italy. First ascended in 2021 by Stefano Ghisolfi, this power endurance testpiece has been repeated by Laura Rogora, Adam Ondra and Jakob...

The report by Slovenian alpinist Gašper Pintar who on 28 and 29 March 2023 completed a remarkable solo climb of the famous Čop Pillar on the North Face of Triglav in Slovenia. Although technically no longer in the calendar winter,...

The video of Claudia Ghisolfi's battle, from injury to redpointing her first 9a, TCT at Gravere in Italy.

At his home crag Pic Saint Loup in France Sebastién Bouin has made the First Ascent of 'Ariégeois Cœur Loyal', grading the route 9b.

Belgian climber Sébastien Berthe has managed to flash 'Le Voyage' (8b+/E10) at Annot in France. First ascended by James Pearson in 2017, it is considered one of the hardest trad climbs in France.

The documentary of the First Ascent of the Central Tower of Paine in Patagonia, completed on 16 January 1963 by British mountaineers Chris Bonington and Don Whillans.

Marco Pellegrini has made the First Ascent of three multipitch sport climbs up the south face of Punta su Mulone above Pedra Longa in the Baunei area of Sardinia, Italy: 'Penso Positivo' with Manuel Zambanini, 'Giumar' with Giulia Orlandi and...

On 6 March 2023 the Italian mountain guides Niccolò Bruni, Gianluca Marra and Giovanni Ravizza made the First Ascent of 'Nati Liberi' on the east face of Aiguille de la Brenva, in the Mont Blanc massif. Bruni reports.

On 28 March 2023 Chris Sharma completed the First Ascent of Sleeping Lion at Siurana in Spain. Graded 9b+, this is the 41-year-old's most difficult First Ascent to date and one of the hardest sport climbs in the world.

Alpinists Fay Manners and Freja Shannon have made the First Ascent of 'How not to' (M5, 250m) on the north face of Grytetippen on the island of Senja in Norway.