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While Yuji Hirayama has made the first ascent of his 8c+ project in Japan aged 50, in Spain 30-year-old Sachi Amma has redpointed his third 9b, Stoking the fire at Santa Linya.

Japanese climber Keita Kurakami has made a rope-solo ascent of Mare, an 8c+ sport climb at Mt. Futago in Japan. This is likely to be the most difficult rope-solo ever of a single pitch sports climb.

The film Free Solo that chronicles the extraordinary solo, ropeless ascent of Alex Honnold up el capitan in Yosemite has won an Oscar for Best Documentary. Directed by Jimmy Chin and Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, this is the first time a climbing film has won the most prestigious award in filmmaking.

Free Solo, the film that portrays Alex Honnold and his ropeless ascent of Freerider up el capitan in Yosemite directed by Jimmy Chin and Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, won a BAFTA award last night in the Documentary category. In early February, Free Solo won a Eddie Award at the American Cinema...

VBlog #18 of Adam Ondra: the last episode of this climbing trip across the Americas comes from Valle de Los Cóndores in Chile.

The film Free Solo directed by Jimmy Chin and Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi that documents Alex Honnold and his journey to climb, without a rope, Freerider up el capitan in Yosemite, has been nominated for an Oscar Award 2019.

Climbing alone and ground-up, last spring German alpinist Alexander Huber made the first ascent of Mauerläufer (200m, 8b+) up Waidringer Steinplatte in Austria.

Behind The Scenes Of The Dawn Wall Film that documents the first free ascent of the most difficult big wall climb in the world, completed in January 2015 by Tommy Caldwell and Kevin Jorgeson.

The parody of the trailer to Free Solo that documents Alex Honnold and his climb without a rope of Freerider up el capitan in Yosemite on 3 June 2017

Climbing with Tommy Caldwell, on 19 November Sonnie Trotter made the first one day free ascent of a new all free variation to North America Wall / El Nino. The Canadian had discovered the 3-pitch variation, now called Pineapple Express, in 2017 with Alex Honnold.

The video of Nina Caprez and Eline Le Menestrel repeating The Nose, the famous big wall climb up el capitan in Yosemite, USA.

Adam Ondra attempting to onsight the crux pitches of the Salathé Wall up el capitan in Yosemite, USA. Belayed by Nicolas Favresse in autumn 2018, the Czech climber deals with the Enduro corner and tries his luck on the Headwall.

Adam Ondra attempting to onsight the Salathé Wall up el capitan in Yosemite, USA, belayed by Nicolas Favresse in autumn 2018.

Connor Herson has made a free ascent of The Nose on el capitan in Yosemite. Climbing with his father Jim Herson over a three-day period, Connor is one of the few climbers to achieve this feat. Aged only 15, he is also the youngest person to free climb The Nose.

Climbing solo and self-belayed for five days, Japan’s Keita Kurakami has repeated The Nose on el capitan (Yosemite, USA). This is the first time that the route freed in 1993 by Lynn Hill has been climbed rope solo all free.

Czech climber Adam Ondra on the road to the Salathé Wall up el capitan in Yosemite, USA, is the theme of the fourth episode of Ondra’s fourth VBlog