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Alex Megos has flashed Chromosome Y, a sports climb at charmey in Switzerland freed by Pirmin Bertle and originally graded 9a. Megos suggests it's 8c+.

At Saint Léger in France Adam Ondra has made a flash ascent of Super Crackinette. This is the first time a 9a+ has successfully been flashed.

At charmey in Switzerland Adam Ondra has repeated Meiose, indicating 9a+ instead of the 9b grade suggested by first ascentionist Pirmin Bertle, while at Saint Léger du Ventoux in France the 25-year-old Czech climber has free yet another 9a+.

The video of Pirmin Bertle and his first ascent of Meiose, a sports climb at charmey in Switzerland, for which the German climber suggested 9b.

Climbing video: Pirmin Bertle making the first ascent of The cold and smelly breath of death, a new boulder problem at Dorotea close to Puerto Natales, Patagonia, graded 8B+/8C.

Part one of what happend, in alpinism and in climbing, in 2012. A summary, for obvious reason incomplete, of the climbs, the most beautiful achievements and also the most painful moments in 2012. In the hope that this résumé serves...

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

At the Swiss crag charmey Pirmin Bertle has freed Chromosome X and Chromosome Y, two routes both graded 9a.