Keyword: sport climbing route

Can you climb an 8b/+ sport route "no feet"?

The two top climbers Stefano Ghisolfi and Will Bosi asked themselves this question and immediately put it to the test. For their superlative campus experiment, they chose the 8b/+ sport climbing route, appropriately named Gravity Games (8b/+).

Excalibur: Why Adam Ondra is taking himself out of the race

The potential 9c route Excalibur has been attracting the best climbers in the world to Arco for a year. Adam Ondra also followed the call of the heavily overhanging route with her micro holds. Now the strong Czech surprisingly gives up and says: Game over, I'm out.

18-year-old Josh Ibbertson climbs Rainman (9b)

Josh Ibbertson repeats the most difficult route in Great Britain with Rainman (9b). Just two weeks after Eder Lomba was the first to repeat the Steve McClure test piece in Malham Cove, the 18-year-old Briton follows suit with his third red point ascent.

Michaela Kiersch climbs her first 8b+ boulder with Hailstorm

The fact that Michaela Kiersch is a strong climber has been known since her ascent of the Sharma route Dreamcatcher near Squamish. In Ogden, Utah, she recently underlined that the American is also at the forefront of bouldering. There she climbed her first boulder of this difficulty with Hailstorm (8b +).

Stefano Ghisolfi gets the first ascent of the Route l'Arenauta (9b)

In the Sperlonga climbing area between Rome and Naples, Stefano Ghisolfi was the first to climb the l'Arenauta route, drilled by Giuliano Tarquini 20 years ago. He suggests grade 9b as an evaluation.

Megos vs. Ghisolfi - so differently they climb bibliography

Why did Stefano Ghisolfi downgrade bibliography to 9b +? Is he just stronger than Alex Megos, or did he just find a better solution? We have analyzed.

Stefano Ghisolfi climbs bibliography (9c) in Céüse

A few hours ago, the Italian Stefano Ghisolfi succeeded in repeating the 9c route bibliography in the French climbing area of ​​Céüse.

Daniel Jung inspecting Unplugged (9a) in the Franconian Jura

The German climber Daniel Jung succeeds in the red point ascent of the sport climbing route Unplugged (9a) on the Hardcore-Wändchen. The following video shows his solid ascent.

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