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Swiss climber Cédric Lachat has made the first ascent of Staphylocoque 9a+ at Pic Saint Loup, France. The video of this and Nina Caprez climbing Hélix au pays des merveilles 8c+.

On 3 June 2014 Swiss climber Nina Caprez redpointed her first 8c+, Hélix au pays des merveilles at Pic Saint Loup, France.

German climbers Tobias Wolf and Thomas Hering have made rare repeats of two difficult routes on El Capitan in Yosemite: The Shaft (Muir Wall free variation) and El Nino.

At Ceuse in France Jonathan Siegrist has repeated Biographie, while at Smith Rock (USA) Paige Claassen has repeated Just do It.

The video of Muriel Sarkany climbing Punt-X 9a at the Gorges du Loup, France.

In Germany's Frankenjura Alexander Megos has repeated The Essential 9a, Black Label 9a, Matador 9a and The Man that follows hell 9a+.

The video of Adam Ondra attempting to onsight Psicoterapia 9a at Valdegovía in Spain.

On 13/04/2014 15-year-old Stefano Carnati made only the 4th ascent of Spirit Walker, the historic 8c at Sasso Remenno in Val di Mello freed by Daniele Pigoni back in 1990.

Interview with German sports climber Alexander Megos after his two-hour repoint of Action Directe, Wolfgang Güllich's 9a in the Frankenjura, Germany.

On 04/05/2014 at Baltzola in Spain Adam Ondra onsighted Il Domani.

On 3 May 2014 Alexander Megos repeated Action Direct, Wolfgang Güllich's 9a in the Frankenjura, Germany, in a mere 2 hours.

At Arco in Italy Silvio Reffo has repeated Bio-logiko 9a, while in Germany's Frankenjura he sent Odd fellows and Steinbock 8c as well as Battle cat 8c+. Young Stefano Carnati is on top form too with a rare repeat of Spirit Walker 8c at Sasso Remenno in Val di Mello

At Grotta di Mezzegra in Italy, 41-year-old Swiss climber Nicola Vonarburg has repeated Vamos 8c and Vamos Concita Martinez 8b+.

In redpointing Fish Eye at Oliana in Spain on Saturday 5 April , British climber Hazel Findlay has become the first British woman to climb 8c.

On 14/12/2013 Matthias Schmidl repeated Warbeast 8c+ at Nago, Arco. At the same Italian crag Schmidl repeated Ghostrider 8c and The great southern killing line 8c.

On 15/03/2014 in Vallunga (Dolomites) Wolfgang Hell and Pavol Rajcan made the first ascent of Evoution, a new mixed pitch that caps La Strega, first ascended by Cristoforo Groaz and Giovanni Groaz in 1992). Overall difficulties of the 120m line check in at WI 5+ M9+.