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Watch Connor Herson & Alex Honnold climbing for a weekend in Yosemite in May 2024, repeating cosmic debris and New Leaf.

The video of Japanese climber Yuji Hirayama making the first free ascent of Hanabi, the 8c+ freed by the 52-year-old at Futagoyama (Mt Futago) in Japan at the end of 2021.

53-year-old Japanese rock climber Yuji Hirayama has made the first ascent of Peaceful Mountain 9a at Futagoyama (Mt Futago) in Japan.

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

Japanese mountaineer Yasushi Yamanoi is to receive the13th Piolets d'Or Carrière Lifetime Achievement Award. The prize giving ceremony will be celebrated in Briançon, France, from 26 to 29 November.

Polish / British alpinist Marek Raganowicz reports about his 13 day solo ascent of Born Under a Bad Sign, a difficult and dangerous aid climb up El Capitan in Yosemite first ascended in 1979 by Bill Price and Tim Washick.

Watch Jorg Verhoeven and Katharina Saurwein climbing some of the most famous single pitch rock climbs in Yosemite after retiring from climbing competitions.

Czech rock climber Adam Ondra has attempted but only just failed to onsight the Salathé Wall on El Capitan in Yosemite, USA.

American rock climber Alex Honnold has made a free solo ascent of Freerider on El Capitan, Yosemite. In doing so he has become the first person to climb El Capitan without ropes.

The 47-year-old climber Yuji Hirayama from Japan has repeated Minerva at Mizugaki, a boulder problem officially graded 8B+.

Two videos about American rock climber Alex Honnold: a video portrait filmed by Fred Moix and the trailer of a trip to Angola where, apart from climbing, he initiated a pilot program of home solar systems for the local population.

Jacopo Larcher talks about his first climbing trip to Yosemite Valley, USA with Barbara Zangerl, during which they repeated El Nino (5.13c, 800m) on El Capitan and other granite big wall climbs.

The climbing video of Alex Honnold soloing Heaven in Yosemite, USA.

Video of Dean Potter soloing the Rostrum in Yosemite (USA).

A short interview with Alex Honnold after his first ascent of the boulder Too Big To Flail at the Buttermilks, Bishop, USA.

At the Buttermilks in Bishop (USA) Alex Honnold has freed Too Big to Flail, a super highball up the immense Luminance Block.