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On 27 December 2024 German alpinist Jost Kobusch, currently attempting his extremely ambitious project of climbing the West Ridge of Everest solo and in winter without O2, reached the unprecedented altitude of 7537m.

American climber Chris Sharma has made the first ascent of 'Vision Quest', a 9a deep water solo on the island of Mallorca.

Spanish rock climber Jorge Diaz-Rullo has repeated 'Stoking the fire', the 9b established in 2013 by Chris Sharma at Santa Linya, Spain.

Paweł Zieliński has made the first ascent of 'Forza di Polacco', the 170m multipitch he established rope solo on Monte Monaco next to San Vito Lo Capo in Sicily, Italy.

Interview with Austrian climber Barbara Zangerl after her ground-breaking, historic flash ascent of 'Freerider' on El Capitan in Yosemite.

Austrian climber Barbara Zangerl has flashed 'Freerider' (VI 5.13a), making her the first person in history to flash El Capitan, Yosemite, USA.

Last summer South Tyrolean mountain guide Christoph Hainz made the first ascent, ground-up and rope-solo, of 'Dolomiti Race' on Piz Ciavazes in the Sella group of the Dolomites, Italy.

Belgian climber Hannes Van Duysen has repeated 'Es Pontás', the 9a+ DWS on Mallorca in Spain first ascended by Chris Sharma in 2006.

The Croatian Mountaineering Association reports about new climbs added to the peaks in the Grebaje valley, Montenegro.

Spanish alpinist Jordi Corominas has been named as 2024 recipient of the Piolets d'Or Carrière. He will receive the 16th Walter Bonatti - Piolets d’Or Lifetime Achievement Award at the international festival in San Martino di Castrozza (Dolomites, Italy) in December.

British rock climber Tom Randall has made the first ascent of Autobahn, a 60m offwidth bridge crack in Berlin, Germany.

Watch Connor Herson & Alex Honnold climbing for a weekend in Yosemite in May 2024, repeating Cosmic Debris and New Leaf.

Earlier this year American alpinist and excavation contractor Nathan Brown, with the help of Jackson Marvell and Sam Mack, made the first ascent of 'Civil Disobedience' (V 5.9 A3) the right of the historic 'Lowe Route' on the north face of Angels Landing, Zion National Park, USA. Brown, who climbed...

The organisers of the Piolet d’Or mountaineering award have published the 'big list' of most significant and innovative climbs carried out in 2023. The honoured ascents will receive the Piolets d'Or 2024 award during the celebration at San Martino di Castrozza (Italy) from 8 - 11 December 2024.

Swiss mountaineer Dani Arnold is the twelfth recipient of the Paul Preuss Prize, awarded each year in memory of the bold Austrian alpinist. Instated in 2013, past winners are Reinhold Messner, Hanspeter Eisendle, Albert Precht, Hansjörg Auer, Alexander Huber, Beat Kammerlander, Bernd Arnold, Heinz Mariacher, Catherine Destivelle, Thomas Huber and...

The preliminary details of the climbing expedition to Greenland by Matteo Della Bordella, Symon Welfringer, Silvan Schüpbach and Alex Gammeter, which resulted in the first ascent of 'Odissea Borealis' (1200m, 35 pitches, 7b) on the hitherto unclimbed NW Face of Drøneren