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James McHaffie and Pete Robins have repeated Coeur de Lion E8 7a in Twll Mawr, Llanberis, wales. This is only second ascent of the route that was put up by Johnny Dawes in 1987.

Steve McClure and Leah Crane on the route Meltdown at Twll Mawr, Dinorwig slate mines, wales.

The video of Steve McClure and Leah Crane climbing at The Diamond, wales.

Steve McClure and Leah Crane climbing The Mau Mau in the Dinorwig quarries above Llanberis, wales

On 21 September 2014 Neil Mawson made the first ascent of Choronzon at Pembroke in wales. Graded E10 7a, this checks in as one of the hardest trad routes in the UK.

At Pembroke in wales Caroline Ciavaldini has climbed Mercia Wall E8, Yuji Hirayama has climbed The Big Issue E9 while James Pearson has made a flash ascent of Something's Burning E9. Caroline Ciavaldini talks us through these three difficult trad climbs.

British climber Tom Randall has made the first ascent of Dina Crac, E9 7a at Dinas Rock in South wales.

Ian Lloyd-Jones and his son Celt Lloyd-Jones have established The Desolation of Smaug, the longest sport climb in the United Kingdom.

The recent climbs of Vanessa François, Hazel Findlay, Pamela Pack, Emma Twyford, Katy Whittaker, Shauna Coxsey, Alizée Dufraisse, Eva López, Ashima Shiraishi and Angelina Scarth-Johnson.

The documentary of The Meltdown in the Dinorwig quarries in wales, an old Johnny Dawes project freed by James McHaffie in summer 2012.

On 9 July James McHaffie made the fifth ascent of The Indian Face, E9 6c on Cloggy, wales.

Maurizio Oviglia talks about the first ascent of Raptor at Jurassic Park in Sardinia. A 25m high 7b trad climb reminiscent of the famous Right Wall, first climbed by Pete Livesey on Dinas Cromlech in wales.

English rock climber Hazel Findlay has climbed her second E9, Chicama at Treaddur Bay, Holyhead, wales.

Part 2 - from July to December - of what happened in alpinism and climbing in 2012.

Switzerland's Claude Remy provides a chronological analysis of the evolution free climbing (bouldering and difficulty). An article which clearly is not and cannot be definitive, but is merely a stimulus for further analysis and discussion about the evolution of this sport.

Interview with British climber Neil Gresham after his first ascent of the Deep Water Solo Olympiad 8b at Pembroke, wales.