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On 23 July 2024 French paraclimber Solenne Piret teamed up with Chris Cazin to climb the Swiss route + O Sole Mio exit on Grand Capucin in the Mont Blanc massif.

In the run-up to the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, on 23 June the Olympic Torch Relay completed a breathtaking tour of aiguille du midi.

In August 2022 the Bulgarian climbers Emiliyan Kolevski and Victor Varoshkin made the first ascent of 'Electric Avenue' on Grand Gendarme on the Arête des Cosmiques on aiguille du midi, Mont Blanc, France. This is only the third route up...

French photographer Alex Buisse introduces his 10 favourite climbs in the Mont Blanc massif. The routes feature in his stunning photographic topo guide to the range 'Mont Blanc Lines' (Vertebrate Publishing 2022).

Major rockfall took place on famous Arête des Cosmiques in the Mont Blanc massif on Monday 29 August 2022. This follows the landslide the swept away the Fourche bivouac on Friday 26 August.

On the 26th of January 2022 Line van den Berg from the Netherlands and Fay Manners from Great Britain have made the first female ascent of 'Phantom Direct', also referred to as 'Via in memoria di Gianni Comino', established in...

Marco Sappa reports about the first ascent of La Fessura di Gianfri, a difficult trad crack climb at the historic crag Nid Des Hirondelles in Valgrisenche, Valle d’Aosta, Italy. The route is dedicated to his father Gianfranco Sappa, a Courmayeur...

From 21 to 22 February Slovak mountaineers Ondrej Húserka and Evka Milovská made the first ascent of Mystery (85 °, M8, C1, 600m (15 pitches) on Aiguille du Plan in the Mont Blanc massif. Húserka reports.

On 9 February 2020 Julien Herry and Yannick Boissenot made what is likely to be the first ski and snowboard descent of the Boeuf - Sara couloir on Aiguille du Peigne in the Mont Blanc massif. Herry reports.

Czech climber Lucie Hrozová has repeated Digital Crack, the famous 8a freed by Thierry Renault and Alain Ghersen above Arête des Cosmiques on aiguille du midi in the Mont Blanc massif.

Slovak mountaineers Ondrej Húserka and Ján Smoleň have established two new rock climbs on Aiguille d’Argentière in the Mont Blanc massif: Crystal route up Contreforts Charlet-Straton and In memory of Červienka up Plateau du Jardin.

The Grands Montets cable car middle station caught fire yesterday afternoon. While no one was injured, the fire has caused significant damages.

After the closure in June, the second section of the aiguille du midi cable car has been closed for an indefinite period due to maintenance works.

After unforeseen maintenance works the aiguille du midi cable car in the Mont Blanc massif has reopened once again.

The aiguille du midi cable car in the Mont Blanc massif is temporarily closed due to unforeseen maintenance. Full operations will resume on Saturday 7 July.

French alpinists Jeff Mercier, David Autheman, Lucien Boucansaud and Gérémy Rakowski have completed Red Devils, a new route up the NW Face of aiguille du midi, Mont Blanc massif, France.