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Interview with Jakob Schubert after the first ascent of Project Big at flatanger in Norway last week. The 32-year-old Austrian has now called the climb B.I.G. and suggested the grade 9c. This is currently the third route in the world with this grade, after Silence at flatanger and DNA in...

Austrian climber Jakob Schubert has made the first ascent of Project Big at flatanger. Bolted by Adam Ondra in 2013, the line was defined by the Czech climber as 'the true king line of the cave.'

Watch Austrian climber Jakob Schubert attempt 'Project Big' at flatanger in Norway live on youtube today at 17:30.

On 24/07/2023 French climber Sébastien Bouin repeated Move Hard, the 9b at flatanger in Norway established by Adam Ondra in 2017 and repeated previously only by Stefano Ghisolfi.

On Saturday 3 June French rock climber Sébastien Bouin repeated Bibliographie, the 9b+ at Céüse in Southern France first ascended by Alex Megos in summer 2020 and repeated by Stefano Ghisolfi and Sean Bailey in summer 2021.

The video of Adam Ondra downclimbing the 8c+ Odin's Eye at flatanger in Norway.

Watch the video of Adam Ondra grappling with Project Big, his extreme climbing project at flatanger in Norway.

The video and an interview with Austrian climber Jakob Schubert regarding his attempts of DNA, the 9c sport climb located in the Verdon Gorge in France established by Sebastién Bouin in 2022.

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 Friday 3 February 2023 Stefano Ghisolfi made the first ascent of Excalibur at Drena close to Arco. Graded 9b+, it is now one of the hardest sport climbs in Italy.

The video of Stefano Ghisolfi and Will Bosi attempting Excalibur, the futuristic project at Drena close to Arco, Italy, which could be 9b+ or even harder

French climber Sébastien Bouin has sent a flurry of hard routes in Portugal. At the seacliff crag Meio Mango at Cabo Espichel the 29-year-old established Rei de Bering at 9a+/b the hardest sport climb in the country.

The video of French climber Sébastien Bouin making the first ascent of Nordic Marathon, a 130m 9b/+ at flatanger in Norway.

Project Big at flatanger in Norway was bolted by Adam Ondra in 2013. In summer 2022 he was joined by Jakob Schubert and the two started working what Ondra considers the true line of the cave.

German climber Moritz Welt has made the first ascent of a former Markus Bock project at Schiefer Tod in the Frankenjura, calling it Lazarus and grading it 9a+.

Watch Jakob Schubert and Adam Ondra make their first attempts of Project Big at flatanger in Norway. The line is speculated to be in the region of at least 9b+, possibly 9c.