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With her recent ascent of Mécanique élémentaire, French climber Mélissa Le Nevé has become the first woman to climb an 8B+ boulder problem at Fontainebleau in France.

Interview with Italian climber Laura Rogora who, aged a mere 15, made the first ascent of a route at Collepardo on the outskirts of Rome which could be one of the hardest sport climbs ever freed by a woman.

In December 2016 Poland’s Dariusz Sokołowski repeated A Line Above The Sky, one of the most difficult drytooling climbs in the world, freed at Tomorrow's World in the Dolomites by Britain’s Tom Ballard in 2016.

The video of Ralf Grabowski making the first ascent of 'Walk the plank' 9a at Rockywand, Kochel, Germany.

While Alexander Megos has repeated Becoming, a 9a+ sports climb in Germany’s frankenjura, Daniel Jung and Dai Koyamada have repeated Corona 9a+ nearby.

The video of Germany's Lena Herrmann climbing her first 8c+, Battle Cat in the frankenjura.

Action Directe was established by Wolfgang Güllich on 14 September 1991 at Waldkopf in Germany's frankenjura. The route set new new standards in sport climbing and now, precisely twenty-five years after the first ascent, Planetmountain.com takes a step back in...

The German climber Alexander Megos has made an impressive flash ascent of The Path at Lake Louise in Canada. This extremely difficult trad climb was freed by Sonnie Trotter in 2007 and is graded 5.14 (8b+).

During a few short trips to France, Italy’s Stefano Carnati repeated Condè de Choc 9a at Entraygues in the Briançon region and Le Cadre Nouvelle 9a at Ceuse.

Laura Rogora has climbed Wallstreet, the historic world’s first 8c freed in 1987 by Wolfgang Güllich in Germany’s frankenjura.

Russian climber Rustam Gelmanov climbs Hypnotized Minds, the boulder problem put up by Daniel Woods in the Rocky Mountain National Park graded 8C/8C+.

22-year-old German Lena Herrmann has climbed her first 8c+, Battle Cat in the frankenjura. With this ascent she has become the first German woman to climb a route of this difficulty.

18 year-old Italian climber Stefano Carnati has repeated Action Directe, the legendary 9a sport climb established by Wolfgang Güllich in Germany’s frankenjura in 1991.

Interview with German climber Alexander Megos who on 31/05/2016 repeated Hubble, the climb first ascended by Ben Moon in 1990 at Raven Tor, UK, hailed as the world’s first 8c+.

In repeating Geocache in Germany’s frankenjura, Czech sport climber Adam Ondra has now climbed his first 9a+ in a day.

Video interview with British rock climber Jerry Moffatt, one of the driving forces in sports climbing and bouldering during the 1980's and 1990’s. The interview also features early footage of Moffatt training together with Ben Moon in their Sheffield cellar.