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Alex Megos has flashed Chromosome Y, a sports climb at charmey in Switzerland freed by Pirmin Bertle and originally graded 9a. Megos suggests it's 8c+.

At Saint Léger in France Adam Ondra has made a flash ascent of Super Crackinette. This is the first time a 9a+ has successfully been flashed.

At charmey in Switzerland Adam Ondra has repeated Meiose, indicating 9a+ instead of the 9b grade suggested by first ascentionist Pirmin Bertle, while at Saint Léger du Ventoux in France the 25-year-old Czech climber has free yet another 9a+.

The video of Pirmin Bertle and his first ascent of Meiose, a sports climb at charmey in Switzerland, for which the German climber suggested 9b.

Climbing video: Pirmin Bertle making the first ascent of The cold and smelly breath of death, a new boulder problem at Dorotea close to Puerto Natales, Patagonia, graded 8B+/8C.

Part one of what happend, in alpinism and in climbing, in 2012. A summary, for obvious reason incomplete, of the climbs, the most beautiful achievements and also the most painful moments in 2012. In the hope that this résumé serves as a reminder and as a source on inspiration for...

Pirmin Bertle has made the first ascent of Le lézard communiste (8c/8c+) at Jansegg, Gastlosen, Swtizerland

At the Swiss crag charmey Pirmin Bertle has freed Chromosome X and Chromosome Y, two routes both graded 9a.