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Swiss mountaineers Christian Maurer and Peter von Känel climbed 30 fourthousanders during the first 10 days of their XPeaks project to climb all 82 peaks over 4,000m in the Alps within 72 days.

The video documenting the circumnavigation of the Mer de Glace in the mont blanc massif, carried out over a period of 9 days in July 2022 by French alpinists Fred Degoulet and Benji Ribeyre.

In August 2022 the Bulgarian climbers Emiliyan Kolevski and Victor Varoshkin made the first ascent of 'Electric Avenue' on Grand Gendarme on the Arête des Cosmiques on Aiguille du Midi, mont blanc, France. This is only the third route up...

Nico Borgeot, Gaspard Buro and Ross Hewitt have made the first ski descent of 'The Missing Link', joining Poire, Major and Sentinelle on mont blanc’s Brenva Face. Hewitt reports about this huge undertaking on one of the wildest faces in...

On 12/05/2024 Fay Manners and Benjamin Ramos made what is believed to be a new ski descent on the south face of Grande Fourche in the mont blanc massif.

Walter Bonatti, mont blanc, his mountaineering. The new episode of the Petzl Legend Tour Italy takes you on a journey through history and time. After a visit to the National Museum of the Mountain, Federica Mingolla and Alberto Boschiazzo climb...

The Italian mountain guide and former ski mountaineering champion Denis Trento perished on Friday at the age of 41 on the north face of Testa del Paramont in Valle d'Aosta.

The fill 'Grand Capucin, a little big wall' featuring French climbers Christophe Dumarest & Symon Welfringer repeating the 'Voie Petit' on the Grand Capucin in the mont blanc massif.

Austrian alpinist Barbara Vigl reports about a repeat of the 'Gervasutti-Gagliardone' on the East Face of the Grandes Jorasses, mont blanc massif, carried out in July 2023 by Vigl with Anna Truntschnig and Anna Zechling. Apart from possibly being the...

Santiago Padròs reports about his February 2024 first ascents of two mixed climbs at Envers des Aiguilles in the mont blanc massif: 'Hypnotic Lain' on Pointe de Nantillons with Oliver Gajewski dedicated to Line van den Berg, and 'Folie...

On 29 February Mathieu Maynadier, Louna Ladevant and Tristan Ladevant made the first ascent of 'Syndrome de l’oubli' (400m/5/M7) on the SE Face of Point 3359m, also referred to as Deuxième Pointe de Nantillons, in the Envers des Aiguilles of...

On 06/02/2024 Spanish mountaineers Alain Andrés and Garo Azkue made the first ascent of 'Sorterriko Koblak' on Pointe de Nantillons in the Envers des Aiguilles of the mont blanc massif. This 400m mixed climb largely follows the rarely climbed summer...

French mountaineers Yannick Boissenot, Julien Herry and Zian Perrot-Couttet have made a new ski and snowboard descent in the mont blanc massif, 'L'aileron du Requin' on Dent du Requin.

On 17 February Fay Manners and Tom Lafaille made the first ski descent of the Arête Charlet Straton on Aiguille d’Argentiere in the mont blanc Massif. Manners reports about the 5.4 line they have called 'Stratonspherique'.

On 02/05/2024 Italian alpinists Richard Tiraboschi and Giuseppe Vidoni made the first ascent of 'Couloir Noire' (400m, AI4, M5) on Mont Noire de Peuterey in the mont blanc massif. Vidoni reports.

The new Mer de Glace cable car above Chamonix in the mont blanc massif that connecs the Montenvers station with the Mer de Glace glacier was opened for the first time on Saturday 3 February 2024.