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The video 'A New Way Up' directed by Jake Holland, featuring Fabian Buhl and Will Sim paragliding and climbing above the Hunza Valley in Pakistan's Karakorum. Using this groundbreaking paralpinism approach the pair made the first ascent of the Gulmit...

Last weekend Oriane Bertone of France and Lee Dohyun of South Korea claimed their first-ever World Cup gold medals by winning the Prague stage of the Boulder World Cup 2023. Adam Ondra and Janja Garnbret claim silver, Flavy Cohaut and...

Watch Scottish climber Will Bosi repeating Alphane, the 9A boulder problem at Chironico in Switzerland first ascended by Shawn Raboutou.

Watch Marcello Bombardi making the first ascent of El puma (9a) at Chesod in Valle d’Aosta, Italy

On Punta Argennas in Sardinia Mathias Mandi and Klaas Willems have made the first ascent of I Ribelli Della Montagna 7c (7a+ obligatory).

From 15 to 16 February 2023 German alpinists Lukas Hinterberger and Michael Wohlleben completed what is likely to be the first winter ascent of the Salbitschijen trilogy, ie the famous Salbit West Ridge, South Ridge and East Ridge in Switzerland.

The video portrait of Ryuichi Murai, the Japanese rock climber with six 8C+ boulder problems to his name.

In March 2023 at Meteora in Greece the Italians Luca Giupponi, Rolando Larcher and Maurizio Oviglia established the multi-pitch climb Pythagoras (150m, 7a max, 6c obligatory) on the Sourloti Tower. Oviglia reports.

Italian climber Federica Mingolla has repeated Hotel Supramonte, the famous multi-pitch climb in the Gola di Gorropu gorge in Sardinia, established ground-up between 1998 and 1999 by Rolando Larcher and Roberto Vigiani.

A video to remember Christoph Schweiger, the German climber who died tragically in a road accident in April 2023.

On 27 May 2023 Michael Arnold, Vivian Bruchez and Tom Lafaille skied the SW Face of Dürrenhorn in the Mischabel range of the Pennine Alps in Switzerland. The 700m line was skied with one abseil and is called GoldenEye.

Lena Herrmann has redpointed Shangri-La (8c+) at the Schlaraffenland crag in the Frankenjura, Germany.

This spring La Severina, the spectacular crag in Cilento in Campania, Italy, was developed further and currently features 30 pitches ranging from 6b to 8b+. Rolando Larcher provides the info, while a video by Sergio Morra introduces this 'overhanging forest...

During its annual national assembly, the Italian Mountaineering Club removed the name of Benito Mussolini from the register of its honorary members.

Marek Holeček and Matěj Bernat have completed a big new climb on the NW Face of Sura Peak (6764m) in Nepal. The new route is called Simply Beautiful and was established alpine style by the Czech mountaineers.

On the 14th of May 2023 Sébastien Berthe from Belgium and Hugo Parmentier from France climbed 100 different 7A boulder problems in Fontainebleau in a single day. Berthe provides the details of this challenging link-up which the pair completed by...