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On 27/12/2019 Simon Messner and Martin Sieberer made the first ascent of Seitensprung, a new ice climb in Val Lietres - Langental, Dolomites.

The short film Searching for Christmas Tree that documents the search for, and the first ascent of, the mysterious Merry Christmas icefall in China.

Mirco Grasso, Daniel Ladurner, Santiago Padrós have made the first ascent of Para arriba, nach unten e bevilo! in the Val de Mesdi, Sella group, Dolomites. The two-pitch icefall was established ground-up with pegs and bolts, and has been graded M8 WI5. Grasso reports.

South Tyrolean climber Angelika Rainer has repeated Ironman, the total dry tooling route at Eptingen in Switzerland.

The uncut video of Daniel Woods making the first ascent of The Process V16/8C+ at the Buttermilks, Bishop, USA.

At Margalef in Spain Stefano Carnati has repeated Demencia Senil, the 9a+ sport climb first ascended by Chris Sharma in 2009.

At Brar in Albania Sébastien Bouin has made the first ascent of The Dream. Graded 9b, this is now the most difficult sport climb in the country.

Polish rock climber Łukasz Dudek has made the rope-solo first ascent of an 8c sport climb, Core at the crag Biblioteka in Poland.

On Mt. Al Balzet in Valle Albigna, a side valley of Val Bregaglia in Switzerland, Natascha Knecht and Marcel Schenk have made the first ascent of a new mixed climb called Un poco Mondo.

The video of Belgian climber Sébastien Berthe making a free ascent of The Nose up El Capitan in Yosemite, November 2019.

In Val Lasties, Sella, Dolomites, Santiago Padrós and Diego Toigo have repeated the icefall Solo per un altro Hashtag avoiding the first mixed pitch. This is perhaps the first time that this pearl of the Dolomites has been climbed entirely on ice.

Interview with British rock climber Pete Whittaker about his new book Crack climbing - Mastering the skills and techniques

American mountaineer Nathan Heald reports about Peruana Supreme (1000m, TD, AI4), a new route climbed alpine style up the South Face of Siula Grande in Peru with Peruvians Luis Crispin and Thomas Schilter, France's Benjamin Billet and Finland’s Arttu Pylkkanen.

Three videos of recent hard sends: Tomoa Narasaki flashes Decided and, on the same boulder at Mizugaki in Japan, Ryuichi Murai adds the the low start to create United. Finally Giuliano Cameroni on Legacy at Rocklands in South Africa.

Swiss mountaineer Simon Chatelan reports about his new mixed route From Kirov with Love (200m, M9), established solo and then freed with Nicolas Jaquet.

Eliza Kubarska provides the latest updates about the climbing on the elusive Mystery Wall situated in the Dragon Horns massif on Tioman Island in Malaysia.