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Three questions to Italian athlete Stefano Ghisolfi regarding Bibliographie, the second 9c in the world freed in 2020 up at Céüse in France by Alex Megos.

The video of Daniel Woods making the first ascent of Return of the Sleepwalker at Red Rocks, USA and currently only the second boulder problem in the world graded 9a.

Scottish climber William Bosi has repeated Northern Lights 9a at Kilnsey, England.

Massone, Nago, Belvedere, Spiaggia delle Lucertole and Calvario: five crags you must visit to savour the best sport climbing around Arco and Lake Garda. This is the first article in a series made with Vibram, to celebrate climbing yesterday, today and tomorrow as part of its 'Learn to Climb with...

On 4 May 2021 Swiss mountain guide Jonas Schild repeated Bain de Sang, the classic 9a at Saint Loup in Switzerland first ascended by Fred Nicole in 1993.

This summer and autumn the picturesque Val Sapin above Courmayeur in Italy’s Aosta Valley hosts the third edition of Tiro Leader, a climbing challenge to free two difficult sport climbs at the historic crag La città di Uruk. The first to free the routes bolted by Federica Mingolla and Alberto...

Reel Rock have released remastered footage of Margo Hayes climbing Biographie at Céüse in France in 2017

Russian rock climber Dinara Fakhritdinova has repeated Max Factor, 9a at Bakhchisaray in Crimea. In doing so she has become the first Russian woman to climb 9a.

At Annot in France Barbara Zangerl, Jacopo Larcher and Siebe Vanhee have all repeated the difficult trad climb Le Voyage, first ascended by James Pearson in 2017.

The video of Italian climber Lorenzo Puri sending Jungle Speed 9a at Siurana in Spain.

Austrian climber Eva Hammelmüller and Brazilian climber Cesar Grosso at the crag Massone in Arco, Italy, have repeated Underground, the 9a sport climb established in 1998 by Manfred Stuffer.

The video of Sébastien Bouin at Eaux Claires repeating Hugh the first 9a in France put up by Fred Rouhling in 1993.

Watch Stefano Ghisolfi make the first repeat of The Ring of Life, the 9a/+ freed by Silvio Reffo in 2014 and the most difficult climb at at Covolo, Italy.

On 23 March 2021 at Margalef in Spain Alex Megos repeated Mejorando Imagen, a route freed in 2013 by Ramón Julián Puigblanque for which the German climber now proposes 9b instead of the 9a originally put forward by the Spaniard.

19-year-old Laura Rogora sent her third 9a+, Terapia d'urto at the crag Padaro above Arco in Italy.

German rock climber Martina Demmel has redpointed her first 9a, Joe-cita at Oliana in Spain.