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52-year-old Japanese rock climber Yuji Hirayama has made the first ascent of the 8c+ Hanabi at Futagoyama (Mt Futago) in Japan.

Swiss rock climber Katherine Choong has repeated 'Une Jolie Fleur dans une Peau de Vache' (300m, 8b) in the verdon Gorge, France, and '6.4 Sekunden' (170m, 8b/+) at Engelberg in Switzerland.

At the crag San Rocchino close to Camaiore in Tuscany, Italy, Gabriele Moroni then Lorenzo Bogliacino have repeated Naturalmente. Graded 9a+, the route was freed by Adam Ondra in 2017 and unrepeated.

The short film 'verdon: The show must go on' which explores the origins of rock climbing in the Gorges du verdon in France. Featuring Catherine Destivelle, Lionel Catsoyannis, Bernard Vaucher, Bernard Gorgeon and many more.

French rock climber Patrick Edlinger is the protagonist of the second episode of the La Sportiva Climbing Sparkling Moments.

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...

At the crag Lorünser Wändle in Austria Barbara Zangerl has made the first repeat of the 9a Sprengstoff, freed by Jacopo Larcher in November 2020.

Interview with French photographer Alex Buisse about his Mont Blanc Lines climbing poster project.

Aris Theodoropoulos introduces Arcadia, a brilliant new crag close to Leonidio in Greece.

On 20/10/2020 Seb Bouin made the first ascent of Beyond integral 9b/+ and Terra Nova 8c+ at the crag Pic Saint Loup in France.

Austrian climber Barbara Zangerl has become the first woman to climb Greenspit, the difficult trad route first ascended by Didier Berthod in Valle dell’Orco, Italy.

The video of Sébastien Bouin climbing the famous Jean-Baptiste Tribout 8b testpiece in the verdon Gorge, Les Braves Gens ne courent pas les rues

At Ceuse in France Seb Bouin has repeated Biographie, the benchmark 9a+ freed in 2001 by Chris Sharma.

The video of Sébastien Bouin climbing some of the classic routes in the verdon Gorge in France during his Vintage Rock Tour.

Sport climbing in Austria: Barbara Zangerl has repeated Unleashed 8c+ and Instructor 8c+/9a in her home Vorarlberg region.

The video documenting the first ascent of La Rage D’Adam, the 9b/+ sports climb located in the Gorges du verdon in France freed by the French climber Sébastien Bouin in September 2019.