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The video of Caroline Ciavaldini climbing Gaia and James Pearson repeating Harder, Faster at Black Rocks in the UK.

After King Capella, German climber Alex Megos has climbed another William Bosi route at Siurana in Spain, Furia De Jabali 9b.

Last summer British rock climbers Tom Randall and Pete Whittaker spent four days making the first ascent of The Great Rift, a circa 800m horizontal multi-pitch roof crack below a motorway bridge in the UK.

At Gaby in Italy’s Aosta Valley, Marcello Bombardi and Elias Iagnemma have both repeated Ziqqurat, the 8C boulder established in 2015 by Niccolò Ceria.

Watch Alexander Megos make the first repeat of King Capella at Siurana in Spain.

Belgian rock climber Simon Lorenzi has repeated Off the Wagon Low 8C+ in Val Bavona, Switzerland. His is only the fifth ascent after Shawn Raboutou, James Webb, Daniel Woods and Giuliano Cameroni.

The first ascent video of What We Do In The Shadows, the new trad climb put up by Robbie Phillips at Duntelchaig in Scotland graded E10 7a.

German rock climber Alex Megos has repeated King Capella at Siurana in Spain. The climb was first ascended by William Bosi earlier this year and originally graded 9b+.

Three women, and three climbs, which helped change the course of rock climbing: Luisa Iovane on Comeback in Val San Nicolò in 1986, Lynn Hill on The Nose in 1993 and Josune Bereziartu on Bain de Sang in 2002. Our article written in conjunction with Vibram, to celebrate climbing yesterday,...

American rock climber Jonathan Siegrist has repeated Goldrake, the 9a+ established in 2010 by Adam Ondra at Cornalba in Italy.

The uncut video of Janja Garnbret onsighting American Hustle, the 8c at Oliana in Spain climbed by Slovenian two days after Fish Eye, with which she became the first woman in the world to onsight 8c.

On 28 May 2021 British rock climber Craig Matheson made the first ascent of Hard Cheese at Bright Beck Cove in Langdale, UK. Graded E10 7a, this is a major addition to British trad climbing.

The video and the report of the La Sportiva Athletes Climbing Meeting which was took place from 11-13 October 2021 in Valle dell’Orco, Italy.

Czech climber Adam Ondra has made the third ascent of Erebor at the crag Eremo di San Paolo at Arco, Italy. Established by Stefano Ghisolfi in January and repeated by Laura Rogora a month ago, Ondra now believes it warrants 9b.

On Sunday 7 November 2021 Scottish climber William Bosi has made the first ascent of the last outstanding project at Raven Tor, Brandenburg Gate, grading the climb 9a+.

The report by Jacopo Lacher who, at the end of October in Valle dell’Orco, Italy, freed the trad climbs ‘Blood Diamond’ at the crag Diamante and an old project of Adriano Trombetta at the base of Sergent, now called Shikantaza (aka. ‘Il progetto Tromba’).