Daisuke Ichimiya commits The Finnish Line

Eneko and Iker Pou have completed the first ascent of their third difficult route on Peña Santa de Castilla (2.596 m). The project of the two brothers from the Basque Country dates back to 2020, when they established "Rayu" (8c/600 m), one of the steepest multi-pitch routes in the Picos de Europa.

From November 13th to 14th, the international vertical technology community will meet in Friedrichshafen. This year's Vertical Pro will once again offer a wide range of activities – with numerous opportunities for knowledge exchange and around 200 exhibitors from the fields of rope access technology, working at heights and rescue, climbing and bouldering gyms, as well as high ropes courses and forest ropes courses.

If you look up the word "all-rounder" in the dictionary, you'll find Alexander Huber. Mountaineering, alpine climbing, sport climbing, ice climbing, free soloing, and even playing the piano – all no problem for the 58-year-old extreme athlete and physicist, who had to undergo brain tumor surgery in 2024. We talk to him about his fight to regain his former strength, his beginnings in climbing, and whether you can give piano concerts with climbing hands.

Since 2026, bivouacking (or "boofen") in the Saxon Switzerland National Park has been prohibited from February 1st to June 15th. Mountaineering associations are challenging this legally – which also puts the decades-long model of self-regulation to the test.