It is with sadness that we announce the passing of Bernard Newman. From 1998 until 2007, Bernard was the editor of Climber magazine.

Will you be an outdoor ally? The BMC has announced the launch of the new Allyship in the Outdoors course funded by The North Face Explore Fund.

In this new film from The North Face, Stefano manages to claim the first ascent of currently the hardest route in Italy and one of the hardest in the world: Excalibur (F9b+).

On Tuesday 6th February, Italian Alpinists Francois Cazzanelli, Jerome Perruquet, Marco Farina and Stefano Stradelli established a new route on the South Face of the Matterhorn (4,478m).

Sean Bailey is on great form at the moment smashing out the boulders in the US with a first ascent of a long-standing project going at “Probably V16/Font 8C+”.

WideBoyz Pete Whittaker has made the second ascent of Pure Now (E9 6c) at Millstone Edge, Peak District.

During a whistle-stop work-related trip to the UK, James Pearson made the second ascent of Franco Cookson’s North York Moors testpiece, Immortal (E11 7b).

Greg Boswell, Jeff Mercier and Hamish Frost have made the first ascent of Flyby on Cùl Mòr after Hamish Frost took a massive whipper.

Rab athletes, Greg Boswell and Jeff Mercier ditch a trip to Norway to rampage around Scotland instead.

Matt Pavitt has set a new 'fastest known time' for a winter traverse of Skye's Cuillin Ridge with an elapsed time of 4 hours, 35 minutes and 17 seconds.

James Taylor and Angus Kille have both repeated Mat Wright’s highball/micro route Eternal Fall (E8/9) in Ogwen, north Wales

Alex Megos has started his 2024 with the second ascent, and a suggested downgrade, of Chris Sharma’s latest Siurana test-piece, Sleeping Lion.