Having arrived on Mallorca three weeks ago Jakob Schubert has repeated both Alasha and Es Pontas!

The category winners have just been announced for the annual Banff Mountain Book Competition including books from the UK.

Anastasia (Annie) Sanders was on fire on her first day in the Red River Gorge earlier this week including a flash of Omaha Beach (5.14a/F8b+).

Will Bosi has bagged a mass of hard boulder problems in Switzerland whilst climbing with Dave Graham and Shawn Raboutou.

Domen Skofic, Anak Verhoeven and Vita Lukan have been busy in Spain repeating Ali Hulk Sit Start plus Extension (F9b), Patxitxulo (F9a/+) and an on-sight of Geminis (F8b+)

The prestigious Piolet d’Or awards have been announced ahead of the award ceremony in Briancon, France November 26th to 29th.

Earlier this week Toby Roberts got the fourth ascent of Batman (F9a/+) at Malham.

Earlier this week, What we do in the Shadows (E10 7a) at Loch Duntelchaig had its first and second ascents in the same day by Robbie Phillips and Dave MacLeod; the back story is a cracker.

News from Loch Duntelchaig, Scotland is that Robbie Phillips has climbed his long-standing project to give What we do in the Shadows (E10 7a) and Dave MacLeod dives straight in for the second

Laura Rogora has made the second ascent of Erebor - at F9b/+ it’s the hardest route in Italy and the hardest sport route climbed by a female climber.

Sean Bailey gets the third ascent of Bibliographie (F9b+) in France, a month or so after Stefano Ghisolfi made the second ascent.

Anna Taylor has become the first woman to complete a self-powered round of every route that features in Classic Rock, the iconic book written by Ken Wilson.