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Nicolas Favresse has made the first ascent of"Gora gu ta gutarrak" 8C+, Yann Ghesquiers repeated "Titantrope" 8C+ at Kalymnos, Greece

On 02/05/07 Andreas Bindhammer from Germany made the fourth ascent La Rambla 9a+, Siurana, Spain

On 02/05 Dave Macleod made the first ascent of Metalcore F8c+ at The Anvil, Scotland. This is now the hardest sports route in the country.

Aleksandra Taistra from Poland sends her third 8C, "Die Hard" at the Gabbio, Ferentillo, Italy.

Josune Bereziartu repeats Mandragora, 8C (Onate) and Geminis, 8C (Rodellar) and on-sights a series of 8a and 8a+.

On 02/03/07 Barbara Raudner sent Hobbygärtner Fb7c+ in the Kremstal, Austria

On Saturday 5th and Sunday 6th of May 2007, Val di Mello will host the fourth edition of Melloblocco, the international outdoors bouldering meeting in Northern Italy

In February Gabriele Moroni repeated Odi social 8C+ at Siurana (Spain), the latest in his long list of extreme repeats.

Dave MacLeod has climbed his first 8C+, "L’odi Social" at Siurana, Spain to discover how this compares to cutting edge trad routes in Britain, such as his Rhapsody E11 7a.

Valdo Chilese redpoints El sior Favonio 8C at Fonzaso, N. Italy, and together with climbing partner Nicola Pesavento repeats Belfagor 8b+.

At the end of December 2006 Matej Sova succeeded in the first ascent of his "Ekstaza", at Misja Pec, a 40m 90 move stamina testpiece which he believes to be somewhere in the region of 8C+/9a.

The future of one of Austria's oldest and most important crags, the Dschungelbuch just outside of Innsbruck, is currently on the line as 150,000 cubic meters of rock may be given free for quarrying by the local town council.

Patxi Usobiaga on-sights "Andujar power" at Fataga, Canaries, "Proyect de ricar" at El Rio, Tenerife and "Teken" at Etxauri, Navarra all 8b+ and repeats "Begi puntuan" 9a at Etxauri. Edu Marín Garcia and Chris Sharma make the 2nd and 3rd ascent of La Rambla original 9a+

On 28 November Jorg Verhoeven from Holland completed his first 8C flash - Korrida at Misja Pec, Slovenia.

At the end of October the small Polish town Zakopan celebrated its second Mountain Film Festival. The winner of the Sportkania z Filmen Gorskim was L'Abisso by Alessandro Anderloni, whilst the spectators award went to Premeny Tatier by Pavel Barabasz.

13 year old Adam Ondra from the Czech Republic has redpointed Martin Krpan 9a at Misja Pec, Slovenia.