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On 27/11/2022 at Osp in Slovenia Adam Ondra onsighted Water world (9a).

29-year-old French rock climber Nolwen Berthier has onsighted her first 8b+, Omaha Beach at Red River Gorge, USA. She joins the small group of climbers capable of onsighting 8b+.

Maurizio Oviglia recently rebolted one of Sardinia's iconic top-end sport climbs, Le lion de Panshir in the Millennium cave at Cala Gonone and exchanged a few words with the first ascensionist, French ace Yann Guesquiers.

French climber Solène Amoros has sent her first 8c+, La flûte en chantier at La Ramirole in the Verdon Gorge.

At Flatanger in Norway Stefano Ghisolfi from Italy has made the first repeat of Move Hard, a 9b sports climb put up by Adam Ondra in 2017.

On Friday 5 August French rock climber Sébastien Bouin made the third ascent of the 9b+ Change at Flatanger, first ascended by Adam Ondra in 2012 and repeated by Stefano Ghisolfi in 2020.

French climber Sébastien Bouin has made the first ascent of Nordic Marathon at the Hanshelleren cave in Flatanger, Norway. The 130m line is a combination of different routes and is graded 9b/+

French climber Sébastien Bouin has made the first repeat of Iron Curtain at Flatanger in Norway. First ascended by Adam Ondra in 2013 without kneepads and graded 9b, with kneepads Bouin believes it warrants 9a+.

Last summer Austrian climbers Benedikt Hiebl and Barbara Vigl made the first ascent of Erebor, an 11-pitch climb on the SE Face of Arnplattenspitze (2171m) in the Wetterstein massif. Vigl reports

Interview with British mountaineer Paul Ramsden who with Tim Miller completed an alpine style first ascent of The Phantom Line (1200m, ED+) up the north face of a previously unclimbed and unnamed 6563m peak now called Jugal Spire in the Jugal Himal region of Nepal

From 23-25 March 2022 Clint Helander and Andres Marin completed the first ascent of 'The Shaft of the Abyss' (VI AI5R M5 90° Snow A0 ca. 4,000’), a huge new mixed climb up the east face of awe-inspiring Mt. Golgotha in the Revelation Mountains of Alaska.

The video of Japanese climber Yuji Hirayama making the first free ascent of Hanabi, the 8c+ freed by the 52-year-old at Futagoyama (Mt Futago) in Japan at the end of 2021.

At Fontainebleau in France Italian climber Niccolò Ceria has repeated La Révolutionnaire, the boulder problem put up by Charles Albert and graded 8C+.

53-year-old Japanese rock climber Yuji Hirayama has made the first ascent of Peaceful Mountain 9a at Futagoyama (Mt Futago) in Japan.

The video of Stefano Ghisolfi making the first ascent of L'Arenauta, a 20-year-old project at Grotta dell'Arenauta (Sperlonga) now graded 9b.

German rock climber Alexander Huber has made the first ascent of the multi-pitch route La Bavarese at Punta Giradili in Sardinia, Italy.