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On 29/06/2026 the Italian mountain guides Niccolò Bruni and Ezio Marlier made the first ascent of 'President Evil', a 150m multipitch climb on Rognon Vaudano in the Mont Blanc massif.

From 24 to 29 June, Italian alpinists Matteo Della Bordella, Luca Ducoli, Mirco Grasso and Giacomo Mauri climbed the virgin southeast face of K7 Main (6,934m) in Pakistan. The new 1,600‑metre route is named 'Rollercoaster' and stops 350 metres short of the summit due to dangerously poor conditions.

Watch Adam Ondra climbing at Laboratorio above Laggio, Italy, where the Czech superstar made the first ascent of 'Big Twin' (9a+) before attempting an even harder project.

At the Transatlantico wall in the Sarca Valley close to Arco, Italy, Matteo Faletti and Matteo Pavana have opened the multipitch climb 'Queen Mary'. The climbers from Povo (Trento) bolted the route ground-up over the course of two half-days between 2025 and 2026, and freed it on 11 June this...

0, 2, 4 litres per minute... a closer look at the flow of supplementary oxygen and the much‑debated "records" on Everest and in the Himalayas. By Alessandro Filippini.

On 16 April 2026, Swiss alpinists Benjamin Bosshard and Luca D'Amico established 'Magari vai sì' on Piz La Buora (2,678 m) in the canton of Grisons, Switzerland. This is the first route to climb the steep east face. Bosshard reports.

On 20 and 21 June 2026, mountain guide Niccolò Bruni and Federica Furia established 'Rise Slow' on Rognon Vaudano, below the Dent du Géant in the Mont Blanc massif.

Last weekend at Passo della Presolana, Italy, Laura Rogora sent 'Black Shadow' (8c), 'Dancing in the Moon' (8c+) and 'Moon Landing' (9a).

The third stage of the Lead World Cup 2026 came to a close in Innsbruck, Austria, yesterday with Slovenia’s Janja Garnbret claiming her 50th World Climbing Series gold medal across all disciplines. Neo Suzuki of Japan won the men's Lead event. Annie Sanders from the USA and Sorato Anraku from...

The journey undertaken by Cédric Lachat and Guillaume Broust with The Future of Climbing continues with four previously unreleased episodes providing a behind-the-scenes look at some of Europe’s most iconic climbing sites. In the first bonus track, Cédric Lachat explores Fontainebleau and its problems.

On the south face of Piz Ciavazes in the Dolomites, Hubert Eisendle and Simon Kehrer have made the first ascent of 'Sellavie' (7a, 275m).

American alpinists Sean McLane and Vitaliy Musiyenko have made the first ascent of the unclimbed SW Ridge of Balakun (6,471m). The pair were in the Indian Himalaya with Christian Black, who was forced to turned around a few hours into the ascent. While it is unclear whether this was also...

From 21-23 May 2026 Czech climbers Lukáš Trojovský and Dan Bronec made the first ascent of 'Tra sogno e realtà' on the north face of Addaura on Monte Pellegrino in Sicily, Italy. Trojovský reports.

Three new multipitch climbs on Cima Uomo above Val Madris in the Brenta Dolomites, established by Luca Giupponi with his daughter Elsa, his wife Ulla, his brother Davide and Rolando Larcher: ‘E la vita scorre!’, ‘Family Dance’ and ‘Brothers’.

Whilst a record number of 1,008 climbers climbed to the summit of Everest in spring 2026, the undisputed stars of the pre-monsoon season in the Himalayas are undoubtedly Bartek Ziemski and Hillary Dawa Sherpa. By Alessandro Filippini.

South Korean climber Sung Su Lee has repeated Dreamcatcher (9a) in Squamish, Canada.