Last year he scored the two 9a routes Jungfraumarathon and Inferno in Gimmelwald within a week. At the end of February, the fifth ascent of Im Reich des Shogun (9a), the touchstone in the Basel Jura, followed. Time to get to know the young Frenchman Lucien Cousin a little better.
Once again, fixed quickdraws were stolen by strangers in the Basler Jura - although most of them were mounted with maillons. The local climbers wonder and call the thief to reason.
Bernese Kevin Heiniger manages to inspect the Ravage route in Chuenisberg. "It's a historical line that has always been on my to-do list," writes Kevin...
The 24-year-old climber Alexander Megos mastered three 9a routes and seven 8b+/c routes on his one-week trip 'Helveticlimb' through Switzerland in August. Without...