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Interview with British climber Neil Gresham after his first ascent of the Deep Water Solo Olympiad 8b at pembroke, Wales.

The video filmed by Alun Hughes of Johnny Dawes and Jerry Moffatt during their early attempts on The Meltdown, the super testpiece freed recently by James McHaffie at the Dinorwig slate quarries in Wales.

Big news comes from the fresh Dinorwig slate quarries in Wales where British climber James McHaffie has freed an old project which over the years had come to be known as The Meltdown project.

At Stennis Ford in pembroke, Wales, Charlie Woodburn has made the first ascent of Something's Burning E9 7a.

In May Hansjörg Auer from Austria on-sighted the famous route Strawberries first ascended by Ron Fawcett in 1980 at Tremadog in Wales. In more than 30 years this trad climb has only been on-sighted by Stefan Glowacz and Jorg Verhoeven.

Video of Neil Gresham during the first ascent of Hydrotherapy 8a+ at pembroke in Wales.

In October 2011 Mike Rolf established 7a, a Deep Water Solo climb up the famous Faraglioni seastacks at Capri.

Video of Neil Gresham deep water soloing in pembroke, Wales

Neil Gresham has established Hydrotherapy 8a+ at pembroke, one of the hardest Deep Water Solo outings in Great Britain.

In Twll Mawr in the Dinorwig slate quarry in Wales Ian Lloyd-Jones and Sion McGuinness have established The Rock Bottom Line (130m, 7b+).

Ian Lloyd-Jones and Sion McGuiness add Supermassive Black Hole (F7a, 75m) to Twll Mawr in the Llanberis slate quarries in Wales. Video of James MacHaffie on The Quarryman

Jorg Verhoeven has made the second on-sight of Strawberries E6 at Tremadog while Steve Mcclure has carried out the first one-day ascent of The Quarryman E8 in the Dinorwig slate quarries.

French climber Caroline Ciavaldini has repeated Point Blank E8 at Stennis Ford, pembroke.

The video of James Pearson during the first ascent of Do you know where your children are? at Huntsman's Leap and the repeat of Muy caliente! at Stennis Ford in pembroke, Wales.

British climber James Pearson has onsighted a handful of E8's and repeated Muy Caliente E10 6c in pembroke, Wales.

Scottish climber Dave MacLeod has added another dangerously desperate route to the British Isles, Die by the Drop E10 7a at Glenfinnan, Scotland.