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Supported by climbing partner Karel Nováček, Michaela Izakovičová from Slovakia has made a free ascent of 'Golden Gate' on El Capitan in Yosemite. The 34-year-old from Bratislava provides the details of this classic big wall, established in September 2000 by German brothers Alexander and Thomas Huber.

30-year-old Italian climber Stefano Ghisolfi has repeated Action Directe, Wolfgang Güllich's masterpiece established in 1991 in Frankenjura, Germany.

Watch the video of Adam Ondra guiding Pete Whittaker & Will Bosi around Adršpach in Czechia as they repeat some of the classic trad climbs in the area.

The organisers of the Piolet d’Or mountaineering award have published the complete list of most significant and innovative climbs carried out in 2022. The honoured ascents will receive the 2023 Piolets d'Or award during the celebration in Briançon, France, from 14 to 16 November

Slovenia's Janja Garnbret and Japan's Sorato Anraku are provisional first after yesterday's Combined Boulder & Lead Semifinal. The women's finals take place tomorrow while the men's is scheduled for Saturday, with the top three qualifying for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.

The 2023 Sport Climbing World Championships begin today in Bern, Switzerland. The event will award world titles in Boulder, Lead, Speed and Paraclimbing, also distribute the first batch of 10 Olympic quota places for the Olympic Games Paris 2024.

Watch the video of Adam Ondra climbing and Will Bosi discussing 'Vasil Vasil', the world's third 9b+ first ascended by Ondra a decade ago.

Jana Švecová from the czech republic has made the first ascent of Nova, an 8B+ boulder problem at Lidomorna at Moravsky Kras. This powerful line adds a different start to Adam Ondra's 8C+ Terranova and hails as one of the most difficult boulder problems established by a woman to date.

The video of American climber Michaela Kiersch sending her first 9a+, La Rambla at Siurana in Spain.

Last weekend Oriane Bertone of France and Lee Dohyun of South Korea claimed their first-ever World Cup gold medals by winning the Prague stage of the Boulder World Cup 2023. Adam Ondra and Janja Garnbret claim silver, Flavy Cohaut and Mejdi Schalck bronze.

The video of British rock climber Aidan Roberts flashing Momentum (8B+) in Val Bavona, Switzerland

On 24/02/2023 at Siurana in Spain Marco Zanone repeated La Rambla, one of the world's benchmark 9a+.

The video of the first free ascent of Zvěřinec (Menagerie) at Holštejn in the czech republic, carried out in November 2022 by Adam Ondra who considers this 9b+ 'the second hardest route of my life'.

On 27/01/2023 Belgian climber Sébastien Berthe repeated La Rambla (9a+) at Siurana, Spain

American climber Michaela Kiersch has climbed her first 9a+, La Rambla (9a+) at Siurana, Spain. The 28-year-old is only the third woman to repeat this classic test after Margo Hayes in 2017 and Chaehyun Seo in 2022.

The video of Adam Ondra making the first free ascent of the historic aid route 'Příklepový strop' in the Macocha cave at Moravský Kras, Czechia.