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At Red River Gorge (USA) Adam Ondra has flashed Southern Smoke Direct 9a, while young Ashima Shiraishi has repeated the 8C+ climbs Southern smoke and Lucifer.

Pirmin Bertle has made the first ascent of Le lézard communiste (8C/8C+) at Jansegg, Gastlosen, Swtizerland

On 26/09/2012 Matthias Trottmann freed the sports climb Quattro stagioni, 8C 40m, on Engelberg, Switzerland.

A new sport climb and new boulder problems at Amiata in Italy's Tuscany: Michele Caminati has freed the highball Apollo 7B+ and made the first repeat of Alibracciapinne 8b.

Simone Pedeferri has freed Dream of love 8C at Grotta del Ferro, Val di Mello, Italy.

The Czech climbing phenomenon Adam Ondra talks about competitions, his first months after high school, climbing at his limit and future projects in this detailed interview.

Interview with Slovenia's Maja Vidmar, one of the strongest sports climbers in the world.

On 14/10/2012 Silvio Reffo made the first repeat of Il Frutto del Diavolo 8C+/9a at Bus de Vela, Italy.

The video produced by The Vertical Eye of Gabriele Moroni climbing Happy Milf 8C, the climb bolted at Bus de Vela by Valerio Ballardini and freed by Moroni.

This summer Polish sport climber Aleksandra Taistra sent Così Fan Tutte 8C+ at Rodellar, Spain.

The interview with Adam Ondra who on 04/10/2012 freed his mega project at the Hanshelleren - Flatanger cave in Norway. The 55m route is called Change, is graded 9b+ and is certainly one of the hardest sport climbs in the world

Sun, sea, great climbing and partying. These are the ingredients of the first The North Face Kalymnos Climbing Festival which took place on the Greek island from 26 - 30 September 2012.

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

Arnaud Petit and Stephanie Bodet recently climbed in the Ala Daglar massif in Turkey where they carried out, amongst others, the first repeat of Red moon and Star put up by Rolando Larcher and Luca Giupponi.

The 12th World Climbing Championship took place in Paris last week. Lead was won by the Austrians Jakob Schubert and - for a record breaking fourth time - Angela Eiter. Boulder was won by Mélanie Sandoz from France and - for the third time - Dmitry Sharafudtinov from Russia. Yuliya...

On 12/09/2012 the Gorges du Loup in France Matteo Gambaro has climbed his first 9a, Abyss.