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On 11 November 2022 at Covolo in Italy (VI) Camilla Bendazzoli repeated Nagay (8c).

Chaehyun Seo from South Korea has become the second woman in the world to onsight 8c with her faultless ascent of 'L’Antagonista' at Montsant in Spain.

19-year-old climber Chaehyun Seo from South Korea has repeated La Rambla (9a+) at Siurana in Spain. She is only the second woman to climb this iconic route after Margo Hayes in 2017.

Portrait of champion climber Anak Verhoeven, from the sixth season of La Sportiva Living Legends.

Serbian sport climber Staša Gejo has repeated Mécanique Élémentaire, an 8B+ boulder problem at Fontainebleau in France

21-year-old Italian climber Giovanni Placci has repeated Beginning (9a+) at Eremo di San Paolo, Arco, Italy

In Switzerland Camilla Moroni has sent four 8A+ boulder problems, 'Delusion of Grandeur' and 'Second life' at Chironico, and 'Primitivo stand' and 'King of Sonlerto' in Val Bavona. The 21-year-old Italian climber has also sent her hardest problem to date, the 8B 'Heritage' in Val Bavona.

UPDATE 19/10/2022: According to the BBC, Elnaz Rekabi landed at Tehran airport a few hours ago, and was greeted by a large crowd who called her a "heroine".
- There are mounting fears for the wellbeing of Elnaz Rekabi, the Iranian climber who competed in the Asian Climbing Championships in Seoul...

British rock climber Hamish McArthur has repeated Hunger (9a) at The Anvil, Loch Goil, Scotland. First ascended in 2010 by Malcom Smith, it has previously been repeated only by Dave Macleod and Will Bosi.

The video of Adam Ondra who at Covolo, the most difficult crags in Italy, attempts to onsight the 9a La Musa put up by Silvio Reffo in 2021.

The fifth stage of the 2022 Lead World Cup was won on Saturday evening at Koper in Slovenia by home athlete Luka Potocar and Ai Mori from Japan. For both athletes this is their first victory in the Senior Lead World Cup

Czech climber Adam Ondra analyses the new Olympic Combined Boulder + Lead formula, tested for the first time at the European Championships in Munich in Germany.

The video of Jakob Schubert and his preparations in the run-up to the European Climbing Championships 2022 in Munich.

The video portrait of Austrian paraclimber Angelino Zeller.

The Combined Boulder & Lead discipline has been won by Janja Garnbret and Jakob Schubert.

Live streaming from Munich of the new Olympic format, Boulder & Lead (B&L) combined that will be used at the Olympic Games Paris 2024. Women compete on Wednesday, Men on Thursday.