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Swedish climber Matilda Söderlund has made the second ascent of Niemisis at Niemisel, which she believes could be graded 9a.

On Thursday 19 August Swedish rock climber Matilda Söderlund repeated Parzival (8b, 150m) on Westliche Dreifaltigkeit in Switzerland.

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...

The video of Swedish climber Matilda Söderlund redpointing the elder statesman in Frankenjura, Germany, her first 9a sports climb.

Yesterday Swedish climber Matilda Söderlund managed to redpoint her first 9a sports climb, the elder statesman in the Frankenjura, Germany

Italian climber Michele Caminati has repeated Greenspit, the difficult trad climb freed in Italy’s Valle Orco by Didier Berthod. The ascent marks a significant comeback after his fall on England’s gritstone in 2017.

The video of Italian climber Michele Caminati falling to the ground when his rope broke at the gritstone crag Curbar in England. Caminati miraculously walked away with only a broken wrist and heel.

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.

German climber Markus Bock has made the first ascent of Becoming 9a+ in the Frankenjura.

In Germany's Frankenjura Markus Bock has freed four difficult new sport climbs: Underneath Everything 8c+, Graveyard Rodeo 8c+, Black Label 9a and Working Class 9a

The other day close at Arco, Italy Gabriele Moroni repeated the sports climb Bio-Logiko 9a.

On 28 October 2013 Adam Ondra climbed three 9a's in a day in Germany's Frankenjura: the elder statesman, The House of Shock and Sever the Wicked Hand.

On 15/02/2013 James Pearson made the third ascent of Elder Statesman HXS 7a at Curbar Edge, England.

Markus Bock has made the first ascent of four hard new climbs in Germany's Frankenjura, Reunion (8c), The Obsessed (8c+), The 4 Horsemen (8c+) and Witchtripper (9a).

Manuel Brunn and Daniel Jung have both repeated the elder statesman 9a in the Frankenjura, Germany.

German climber Markus Bock has freed, amongst others, House Of Shock 8c+/9a in the Frankenjura, Germany.