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Maurizio "Manolo" Zanolla has climbed the 150m "Solo per vecchi guerrieri", 8C/9a max and 7c/8a obligatory on the Vette Feltrine, Dolomites.

Canadian Sonnie Trotter has made the first ascent of what he believes to be the hardest pure crack climb in the world, Cobra Crack 5.14 b/c (8C/8C+) at the Cirque of the Uncrackables, Squamish, Canada.

At Gorges du Loup Patxi Usobiaga repeats Kinematix 9a and on-sights Sikaplus 8b, Soul sacrifice 8b, New power generation 8b and Hot Chili beans bolcano 8b+, while Irati Anda sends Deverse satanic 8a+ and Cascade 8a. At the end of May Andra redpointed Ongi Etorri 8b at the Baltzola Cave,...

On Monday 8th May 2006 Maja Vidmar joined the exclusive club of women capable of sending 8C by redpointing Osapski pajek at Ospo, Slovenia.

Martin Keller warns that disrespectful behaviour may result in closure of the Chrionico bouldering area in Canton Ticino, Switzerland

In April Alexandra Taistra from Poland redpointed Resistanza Atipica 8b at Ferentillo, Italy.

Rolando Larcher celebrates 25 climbing years by climbng 25° 8C at Celva, Trento.

The bst videos from the Final of the third stage of the Bouldering World Cup 2006 held in Rovereto on Saturday 13 March.

Chris Sharma frees Lucky Lucka extension 8C at Odyssey, Kalymnos second go and repeats Draconian Devil 8b+, together with JB Tribout.

Juliette Danion and Gerome Pouvreau from France beat stiff competition in Rovereto last night to win the third leg of the Bouldering World Cup 2006.

On 8/05 Maurizio Manolo Zanolla made the first ascent of "El Sior Favonio" 8C.

Monique Forestier from Australia has made the third ascent of the beautiful Larger Than Life, 31 (8b) at Centennial Glen, Blue Mountains. In mid-April Garth Miller freed one of the hardest routes on the continent, One on One 33/34 (8C/8C+) at Mini Ha Ha, Blue Mountains.

During the Easter break Luca Zardini carried out the first repeat of Drumtime, the route first ascended by Riccardo “Sky” Scarian at Fonzaso (BL) at the end of March.

Kilian Fischhhuber repeats Dschungelfieber 8C/+ (Dschungelbuch, Austria). At Misja pec, Slovenia, he repeats Sanski par (extension) 8C+/9a together with Jorg Verhoeven, while Katharina Saurwein sends Mrtvaski ples (8b) and Corto (8a).

Josune Bereziartu has just on-sighted Hidrofobia 8b+ at Montsant, Spain and, in doing so, has become the first woman ever to on-sight 8b+!

Scottish Dave MacLeod has climbed the direct finish to Requiem at Dumbarton Rock, Scotland, calling the climb Rhapsody and grading the route E11 7a. This makes it a strong contender for one of the hardest trad pitches in the world.