1+ hour, 20+ min ago   (282+ words) Zélia Avezou Climbs V14 in Magic Wood Gripped Climbing Magazine French climber Zélia Avezou recently visited Magic Wood in Switzerland and sent New Base Line V14 (8B+), among many other hard boulders. Her ticklist also included two V12/13 problems – One Summer in Paradise and…...

1+ day, 23+ hour ago   (290+ words) Gripped Climbing Magazine Jakob Schubert recently sent Mongo 5.14d (9a) at Schleier Wasserfall in Austria. Markus Bendler established Mongo back in 2004, when he was only 20 years old, and it has since been repeated, including by Adam Ondra in 2017. For Schubert, who was…...

3+ day, 7+ hour ago   (270+ words) Sungsu Lee Climbing Chris Sharma’s Dreamcatcher 5.14d Gripped Climbing Magazine Earlier this summer, Sungsu Lee recently sent Dreamcatcher 5.14d in Squamish. It was a rare sport-climbing ascent for the South Korean climber, better known for his cutting-edge hard boulder sends, including Burden…...

3+ day, 13+ hour ago   (316+ words) Gripped Climbing Magazine Nina Arthaud recently sent Hazel Grace V14 at Gotthard Pass in Switzerland. The problem has become a classic over the years, with many ascents from top boulderers. The line has almost 40 ascents on 8a.nu – with nearly a dozen…...

5+ day, 5+ hour ago   (351+ words) Seb Bouin Makes First Ascent of “one of the most stylish” 5.14d’s Gripped Climbing Magazine Seb Bouin has just made the first ascent of a super athletic 5.14d in Saint-Auban, France – he has called it Nova. It features wild, dynamic throws…...

5+ day, 8+ hour ago   (112+ words) Gripped Climbing Magazine Ainhize Belar Barrutia, who climbed her first 5.15a at the age of 18 two years ago, has just sent Zelenputza 5.15a in Egino, La Leze, for her second route at the grade. “The first time I looked at it, linking…...

5+ day, 8+ hour ago   (215+ words) Gripped Climbing Magazine Laura Rogora, 25, who just became the third woman to climb 5.15c with her send of Bibliographie in Céüse, just repeated the nearby test-piece Pornographie 5.14d in three attempts. She also climbed L’arcademicien des crépis 5.14b and flashed Le chirurgien du…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (227+ words) Gripped Climbing Magazine Pete Whittaker has returned to Norway’s wild Kjerag for another solo, this time of Dzikie Historie (“Wild Stories”), an 800-metre line up the left side of the north wall. The route was established in 2015 by Polish climbers…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (387+ words) 18-Year-Old Pepa Šindel Climbs an Adam Ondra 5.15a Gripped Climbing Magazine Pepa Šindel has just made the second ascent of Adam Ondra’s Big Twin 5.15a (9a+) in Laggio Nord in the Italian Dolomites. It was an effort that took the young Czech climber…...

2+ week, 6+ hour ago   (845+ words) Gripped Climbing Magazine Slovak alpinist Igor Koller has been named the 14th recipient of the Paul Preuss Prize, an annual honour presented by the International Paul Preuss Association (IPPG) since 2013. Koller, who’s 73 and lives in Bratislava, was selected by a large…...