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On 6/10/2004 Yuji Hirayama made the first-ever 8c onsight: White Zombie, Baltzola Cave, Spain.

Serik Kazbekov on-sights Ghegoro 8b+ Covolo and flashes Shalom 8b/+, while Natalia Perlova redpoints Buona notte Fiorellino 7c+ at the same crag.

On Saturday 8 and Sunday 9 May, over 300 boulderers met up in the Italian Val di Mello and took part in the two-day international Bouldering event, organised by the Lombardy Mountain Guides.

Patxi Usobiaga on-sights “La Dita del Guerriero ” 8b+, Covolo and “Jurassic” 8b+ at nearby Erto, Italy, while Kilian Fischhuber flashes “Tai chi” 8c at the Lorünser Steinwand, Austria.

Liv Sansoz, Arnaud Petit, François Petit and Stephanie Bodet bouldering in Hueco, USA

Stefania De Grandi sends La boule 7c at Cresciano and Nipote di Goldrake 7b/b+, Valmasino

Cristian Brenna talks about his recent bouldering trip to Hueco, America

Israel Blanco and Mauro Bubu Bole make the first and second repeat of The Game M13 at the Cineplex Cave in Canada, while Anna Torretta repeats Musashi M12.

On 8/02/2004 Hannes Pfeifhofer repeated ‘La via è bella’ M11

In a two week trip Ryan Nelson and Jared Ogden from Colorado repeated some of the hardest dry tooling routes in Europe, including Mission Impossible and Vertical Limit.

Thomas and Alexander Huber brothers have redpointed two old projects on the Feuerhorn, Brechtesgaden, Monstermagnet 7c and Firewall 8b

Luca Giupponi spent his Easter holiday in France's St. Leger du Ventoux, where he on-sighted his first 8b, “Stiquell Man”. he then spent the remaining days redpointing Abregenenief” 8b, “Moi…” 8a/8a+ and “Le maride de la balene” 8a+.

On Sunday 16 February the young Swiss ice climber Simon Anthamatten made a swift second ascent of Robert Jasper's "Vertical Limits".

Last weekend the Italian mountain guide Anna Torretta repeated Fly in the Wind M10 Dolomites

On 27 January Kurt Astner flashed Mauro Bubu Bole's Mission Impossible next to the Haston cave, Valsavarenche, Va di Cogne, Italy.

The Italian climbers Cristian Brenna and Riccardo Scarian have made the most of the cold, clear weather to free some old projects dotted around northern Italy.