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The video of Tom Randall and Pete Whittaker climbing the roof crack Ma Dooley across a bridge in Sheffield.

On 24 September 2021 American climber Sean Bailey repeated Bibliographie 9b+ at Céüse in France.

British rock climber Steve McClure has made the second ascent of Lexicon, the E11 trad climb established only recently at Pavey Ark in England by Neil Gresham.

Climbing video uncut: Alexander Megos making his flash ascent of the 9a Intermezzo XY gelöst at Plombergstein in Austria.

German climber Alexander Megos has made a first-go ascent of Intermezzo XY gelöst 9a at Plombergstein in Austria.

British rock climber Neil Gresham has made the first ascent of Lexicon at Pavey Ark in England. Graded E11 7a, it checks in as one of the hardest trad climbs in Great Britain.

Japanese competition climber Miho Nonaka has redpointed Mr Hyde at Ceuse in France. In doing so she has upped her game from 7c+ to 8c+ in one single go.

American climber Michaela Kiersch has repeated Dreamcatcher at Squamish, Canada.

Città di Uruk is a historic crag located in Val Sapin above Courmayeur in Italy. With over 30 climbs of all grades, this is reputed to be the best cliff in the entire Aosta Valley. This year the crag hosts the Tiro Lead competition, with € 1,000 prize money for...

German rock climber Solveig Korherr has climbed her first 9a, La cabane au Canada at Rawyl in Switzerland.

12-year old Gianluca Vighetti from Italy has repeated TCT, a 9a at Gravere freed by Stefano Ghisolfi in 2014.

Podcasts # 8 and # 9 of Climbing Sparkling Moments by La Sportiva explore Lynn Hill's historic first free ascent of The Nose on El Capitan in Yosemite in 1993, and a rare repeat carried out by Jorg Verhoeven in 2014.

American rock climber Paige Claassen has made the first female ascent of Dreamcatcher, the iconic 9a at Squamish in Canada first ascended by Chris Sharma in 2005.

The video of French climber Seb Bouin at the historic crag Cimaï in southern France.

Belgian rock climber Siebe Vanhee reports about his repeat of Project Fear on the North Face of Cima Ovest di Lavaredo in Dolomites.

The video of Jonas Schild climbing Bain de Sang, featuring the first ascensionist Fred Nicole who also explains the reason behind the name of the legendary climb at Saint Loup in Switzerland.