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The video of the first ascent of El Flechazo on Cerro Standhardt in Patagonia, established by Belgian mountaineers Nicolas Favresse and Sean Villanueva O’Driscoll in February 2020 with two bivouacs.

American climber Jonathan Siegrist has made the first ascent of One Hundred Proof, a 9a+ sports climb at Mount Potosi above Las Vegas in Nevada, USA.

The film Baffin, in memory of the Canadian alpinist Marc-André Leclerc who lost his life in March 2018 along with Ryan Johnson.

The two highly talented alpinists Marc-André Leclerc and Ryan Johnson are officially missing and presumed deceased in Alaska. They have not been heard from since their 5 March ascent of the Mendenhall Towers.

In Patagonia Canadian alpinist Marc-André Leclerc has made the first solo winter ascent of Torre Egger (2685m).

From 24 - 25 August 2016 the alpinists Tom Ballard and Marcin Tomaszewski made the first ascent of ‘Dirty Harry’ (VII, 1375m), a huge new rock climb up the NW Face of Civetta, Dolomites.

Canadian alpinist Marc-Andre Leclerc has carried out a fast solo ascent of the routes tomahawk and Excocet on Aguja Standhardt in Patagonia.

The winter climbing season in Scotland has begun with three noteworthy ascent: the first winter ascent of Boggle of Beinn Eighe by Martin Moran and Robin Thomas and the first repeats of tomahawk Crack on Ben Nevis (Will Sim and...

A report of the recent new winter routes climbed in Scotland which include Shooting the Breeze (IX,8 Guy Robertson, Greg Boswell) and Immortal Memory (IX,9 Guy Robertson, Jason Currie) on Beinn Eighe, Vapourizer (VIII,8 Guy Robertson, Greg Boswell) on Creag...

Part 2 - from July to December - of what happened in alpinism and climbing in 2012.

On 29/11/2012 Greg Boswell and Adam Russell made the first ascent of tomahawk Crack (VIII,9) on Ben Nevis in Scotland.

Slovenian alpinist Marko Prezelj has returned from a five week trip to Patagonia where, dodging typical unstable weather, he made two fast ascents together with the Americans Stephen Koch and Dean Potter, one on Cerro Torre and one on Torre...

Scott Muir from Scotland has just made the second ascent of one of America’s hardest mixed routes, Jedi Mind Tricks M13, Colorado, USA

Scottish climber Scott Muir has made an impressive repeat of what is believed to be Europe's hardest continental mixed climb, Game Over M13 at Drylands near Innsbruck, Austria.

in February Scott Muir from Scotland managed to make an important first ascent 'Tsunami' M12, at the Mission Impossible Cave in Northern Italy.

In a two week trip Ryan Nelson and Jared Ogden from Colorado repeated some of the hardest dry tooling routes in Europe, including Mission Impossible and Vertical Limit.