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The video of British climber Jacob Cook making the first ascent in 2014 of The Lizard King, an E9 trad climb at ilkley in England

Interview with James Pearson and Caroline Ciavaldini after their respective repeats of Harder Faster and Gaia at Black Rocks in England. These hard grit testpieces were first ascended by Charlie Woodburn and Johnny Dawes and while Pearson’s is only the...

British climber James Pearson has made the first ascent of the bold and difficult route Power Ranger (5.14R / 8c) at Sunset Rocks, Chattanooga, USA.

Michele Caminati, an expert of England’s gritstone, fell to the ground while climbing The Elder Statesman at Curbar in the Peak District. Miraculously, the Italian walked away with nothing more than a fractured wrist and heel.

Yesterday in England's ilkley Quarry Michele Caminati made a rare repeat of the gritstone route The New Statesman E8 7a.

British climber Jordan Buys has made the first repeat of the gritstone route Loaded E8 7a at ilkley Quarry, while his wife Naomi Buys made the first female ascent of Snap Decision E7 6c.

James Pearson has made a fast first repeat of the gritstone testpiece Gerty Berwick at ilkley Quarry, England.

Ryan Pasquill has made the first ascent of the impressive gritstone line to the left of The New Statesman at ilkley, England. The route has been called Gerty Berwick.

American climber Kevin Jorgeson has made the first ever ground up ascent of an E9 gritstone climb, Parthian Shot E9 6c, Burbage, England.

At Stanage John Welford makes a rare fifth ascent of Careless Torque Fb 8a+ while Tyler Landman repeats The Ace Fb 8b. Ryan Pasquill makes an impressive flash of Curbar's End of the Affair E8 6c.

The arrival of the cold weather signals the start of hard gritstone ascents in Britain at the hands of Simon Moore, Sam Whittaker, Pete Hurley, Espen Samuelsen and Tobias Wolf