Italian climbers Pietro Vidi and Alessandro Larcher free-climbed the route Joy Division (800 m, 8b) on the Qualido Wall in Val di Mello on Wednesday, September 17, 2025. The 20-pitch route is considered one of the most challenging multi-pitch routes in Italy.
In the spring of 1975, Kurt Albert marked the start of a route in the Franconian Jura with a red dot for the first time. Fifty years later, the term "red dot" has become the definitive free climbing style. Therefore, climbers in the Franconian Jura in Obertrubach duly celebrated this past weekend with a photo project and a film on the history of free climbing.
From 5 to 7 August, the Frenchmen Leo Billon and Enzo Oddo succeeded in the first free ascent of the Lafaille route on the west face of the 3.733 m high Petit Dru in the Mont Blanc massif.
Sean Villanueva succeeds in free climbing the most difficult route on the El Mocho massif in Patagonia, The Approach Team Line. It is an old techno route by two Bulgarians.
In the Moravian Karst region of the Czech Republic, there is a 140-meter-deep collapse depression that forms a huge cave. There are climbing routes there, but climbing is only allowed on five days a year. Adam Ondra did not miss this opportunity.
