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Frenchman Guillaume Glairon Mondet has squeezed up The Big Island (V15), making a rare repeat of Fontainebleau’s hardest problem.

Following his groundbreaking first free ascent of the Compressor Route (5.13b) on Cerro Torre last year, David Lama is on his way back to the Patagonian mountains with a wild new first ascent in the Alps as preparation.

Will Gadd, Will Mayo, Pat Delaney, and John Freeman collectively developed a new M11 route called Nophobia in the Ghost area near Canmore, Alberta. Two in the party successfully climbed the route on January 10, 2013.

“He’s making it look easy!” exclaimed a shocked spectator while watching Simon Duverney style the final route at the 18th annual Ouray Ice Festival mixed-climbing competition this Saturday.

David Lama and Peter Ortner established a new route on the North face of Laserz on December 27, 2012, in the Lienzer Dolomites of Austria.

Klem Loskot recently exploded onto the scene with a V15 ascent and a 5.15a first ascent. Now Loskot has shared his thoughts, photos, and video footage of his recent repeat of Zunami (V15) with Rock and Ice.

“Don’t blowtorch the holds!” Or at least that’s what Carlo Traversi has been hearing lately after being shown in a film using a blowtorch to dry some wet granite holds in Sweden.

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Local climber Andres Marin just sent five of the hardest mixed lines in Ouray's Posers Cave in a single day. "My first visit to the cave was about six years ago," Marin writes in an email to Rock and Ice. "I remember being overwhelmed by the place and how steep the climbing is."

Eric Nourse, 41, of Colorado and David Reinhart, 42, of Portland, Oregon, have died while attempting Aconcagua, 22,841 feet and the highest mountain in the Americas.