Belgian climber Sean Villanueva O'Driscoll has been willingly stuck in Patagonia since Covid-19 kicked off, and making the most of it: jaws dropped around the climbing world when he became the first to solo the Fitz Roy Traverse late last week. This epic route, fantasised about by anyone who has ever seen a photo of the jagged skyline above El Chalten, was first completed by the dream simul-climbing team of Alex Honnold and Tommy Caldwell in 2014. The route traverses the iconic Cerro Fitz Roy and its six satellite peaks: 5km of ridge line with around 4000m of vertical gain. Read more »
With expedition grants from the BMC, the Alpine Club, Welsh Sports Association, and Gino Watkins Memorial Fund, Lee Roberts, Dave Rudkin and Olly Sanders completed a new 800m rock route at E5 6b C1 on the northwest coast of Greenland. Read more »
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