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Italian climber Stefano Ghisolfi has redpointed 'Ratstaman Vibrations' at Ceuse. This is his 12th 9b and comes in the wake of four 8C boulder problems sent earlier this spring.

On 6 June 2026 Janja Garnbret made the first female ascent of 'Bibliographie' (9b+) at Céüse in France. In doing so the 27-year-old Slovenian has become only the second woman in the world to climb 9b+, after Brooke Raboutou sent 'Excalibur' at Arco in April 2025.

17-year-old Gianluca Vighetti has sent 'Bombardino' (9a) at Bus de la Stria in Arco, Italy on his second attempt and in a single day.

The video of German climber Yannick Flohé repeating 'Excalibur' (9b+) at Arco in Italy.

On 20/03/2026 Spanish climber Enrique Beltrán Blasco sent his first 9b, 'The Full Journey' at Margalef in Spain.

On 15 March 2026 Japanese climber Sachi Amma repeated 'Sleeping Lion', the 9b at established by Chris Sharma in 2023.

32-year-old Italian climber Stefano Ghisolfi has repeated Gioia, the 8C+ boulder in Varazze first freed by Christian Core in 2008.

The video of Gianluca Vighetti climbing his hardest route to date, the 9a+ 'Lapsus' at Andonno, Italy

German climber Yannick Flohé has repeated 'Excalibur', the 9b+ in Arco, Italy, first ascended by Stefano Ghisolfi in 2023 and, until now, only repeated by Will Bosi and Brooke Raboutou.

At Padaro above Arco (Italy), Giovanni Placci has repeated 'Terapia d'urto', the 9a+ freed by Stefano Ghisolfi in 2021.

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On 20 December 2025, Gianluca Vighetti sent Niobe (9a) at Arco, while on 22 November he had sent his first 9a+, 'Lapsus' at Andonno.

Austrian climber Eva Hammelmüller has redpointed 'Omen Nomen' (9a) at Arco, Italy.

South Tyrolean climber Filip Schenk has redpointed 'Beginning' (9a+), completing all the hardest routes at the L'Eremo di San Paolo crag near Arco, Italy.

At the crag Padaro above Arco, Italy, Filip Schenk has repeated 'Omen Nomen' (9a).