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On Sunday 18 June Swiss rock climber Nina Caprez has repeated Yeah Man (8b+, 300m) on Grand Pfad in the Gastlosen mountain range in Switzerland.

The film Love featuring American rock climber Paige Claassen and her efforts to balance her climbing and her career.

On Saturday 3 June French rock climber Sébastien Bouin repeated Bibliographie, the 9b+ at Céüse in Southern France first ascended by Alex Megos in summer 2020 and repeated by Stefano Ghisolfi and Sean Bailey in summer 2021.

The video portrait of Ryuichi Murai, the Japanese rock climber with six 8C+ boulder problems to his name.

In March 2023 at Meteora in Greece the Italians Luca Giupponi, Rolando Larcher and Maurizio Oviglia established the multi-pitch climb Pythagoras (150m, 7a max, 6c obligatory) on the Sourloti Tower. Oviglia reports.

American rock climber Cedar Wright has launched the peculiar Dirtbag Fund, which will assign 5 grants of $1000 each to climbers who devote their lives to climbing on the road,

The video of British rock climber Aidan Roberts flashing Momentum (8B+) in Val Bavona, Switzerland

Russian climber Vadim Timonov has made the first ascent of Blackflip sit, a boulder problem at Djan-tugan in Russia for which he has proposed the grade 8C+/9A.

French climber Sébastien Bouin makes the first ascent of Suprême Jumbo Love (9b+) at Clark Mountain, USA in November 2022.

On 11 March 2023 French rock climber Hugo Parmentier sent his first 8C boulder problem, Le pied à Coulisse at Fontainebleau in France.

On 28 March 2023 Chris Sharma completed the first ascent of Sleeping Lion at Siurana in Spain. Graded 9b+, this is the 41-year-old's most difficult first ascent to date and one of the hardest sport climbs in the world.

On 23/03/2023 at Annot in France British rock climber Steve McClure made a fast repeat of 'Le Voyage', the difficult trad climb first ascended by James Pearson in 2017.

American rock climber Anna Hazlett, aka. Anna Hazelnutt, has repeated the 8b/+ E9/E10 trad climb Prinzip Hoffnung located at Bürser Platte, Austria.

Blind British paraclimber Jesse Dufton, together with Molly Thompson and Paul Donnithorne, has the first ascent of the 100m multi-pitch rock climb 'Eye Disappear' at Heavy Rock in the Anti-Atlas mountains of Morocco

The video and an interview with Austrian climber Jakob Schubert regarding his attempts of DNA, the 9c sport climb located in the Verdon Gorge in France established by Sebastién Bouin in 2022.

Marcin Tomaszewski reports about the first ascent of FRAM, a technical 700m climb on Oqatssut Wall on the West coast of Greenland established from 10 - 24 February 2023 with Paweł Hałdaś. This is the first route on the mountain...