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A case study of the use of drones in the historic first ski descent of K2, carried out in 2018 by Poland’s Andrzej Bargiel

16-year-old climber Oriane Bertone has repeated Karma, the legendary boulder problem at Fontainebleau first ascended in 1995 by Fred Nicole. This is likely to be the first female ascent of iconic bouldering problem.

Austrian climber Jakob Schubert has made a swift repeat of Erebor at Eremo di San Paolo close to Arco, Italy. The 9b was put up by Stefano Ghisolfi and previously repeated by Laura Rogora and Adam Ondra.

At the crag Celva in Northern Italy 15-year-old Gioele Piffer has repeated L’Arte di salire in alto, one of the first 8c’s in Italy established by Rolando Larcher 1992

The winter expedition to Manaslu led by Simone Moro and Alex Txikon has suffered a minor setback; an avalanche hit and partially destroyed Base Camp. All the members of the expedition are doing well, having previously descended to Samagaon after heavy snowfall.

Italian rock climbers Marcello Bombardi and Marco Zanone have repeated First Ley, the 9a+ sport climb established by Chris Sharma at Margalef in Spain

The film about Austrian climber Beat Kammerlander making the first ascent of WoGü, the difficult multi-pitch route he established in 1998 in the Rätikon massif in Switzerland, dedicated to Wolfgang Güllich.

In 2021 the Italian mountaineer Francesco Vascellari, solo or with friends such as Loris De Barba, completed a dozen new extreme skiing descents in the Dolomites.

The video of Swiss climber Giuliano Cameroni making the fourth ascent of Off the Wagon, the 8C+ boulder problem freed by Shawn Raboutou in 2018 in Val Bavona, Switzerland and repeated by Cameroni in May 2021.

At the end of December 2021, South Tyrolean mountaineers Simon Gietl and Jakob Steinkasserer made the first ascent of Focus, an ephemeral icefall close to Rein in Taufers / Riva di Tures in the Ahrntal Valle Aurina, Italy.

The video of Alessandro Zeni on Eternit, the slab he climbed on 02/11/2021, first ascended by Manolo in 2009 at the crag Baule in the Italian Dolomites.

The report by 23-year-old Italian climber Luca Bana who on 26/12/2021 made the first ascent of Extrasistole galoppante 9a at the historic crag Cornalba in Val Seriana above Bergamo, Italy.

The video portrait of 56-year-old Japanese mountaineer Yasushi Yamanoi who was awarded with the 13th Piolets d'Or Carrière 2021 at the end of November at Briançon in France.

The video documenting the first ascent of Floatin, the 8C+ boulder problem at Mizugaki in Japan freed by Ryuichi Murai at the start of December 2021.

On 23 December 2021 Adam Ondra made the first ascent of Taurus, a new 9b sport climb at Byci Skala in the Czech Republic.

The video of American rock climber Jonathan Siegrist repeating Goldrake 9a+ at Cornalba in Italy.