The young French climber, Victor Guillermin, has climbed Estado Critico (F9a) at Siurana.

Word from a snowy Yosemite is that Siebe Vanhee and Seb Berthe are in town and sizing up The Dawn Wall.

After battling super hard projects all last year Seb Bouin took a mini break over Xmas to Mallorca where he hoovered up a dozen or so routes including a fast repeat of Reikiavic Energy (F9a).

Tim Emmett and Sam Eastman have taken full advantage of the current cold snap in western Canada to add a new two-pitch, 120m ice route in Squamish, Medusa (WI6+).

Adam Ondra is accustomed to being in the news; now, he’s added more new routes, announced he and his wife are expecting their first baby and, it seems, changing one of his sponsors.

Stefano Ghisolfi has finished the year back on his local crags adding yet another stout testpiece to his CV, The Lonely Mountain (F9b or harder).

Jakob Schubert and Alex Megos both mop-up at the La Capella sector at Siurana with more repeats but they’re at odds over route grading.

Greg Boswell recently kicked off his 2021 winter season with the first ascent of Take Me Back To The Desert (IX, 9).

Austrian power-house, Jakob Schubert, has made super-fast repeats of both King Capella and La Capella and suggests downgrades for both to F9b and F9a+ respectively.

Earlier in the autumn, Belgian climber, Siebe Vanhee, stormed the grit repeating numerous Peak testpieces.

Wideboyz, Tom Randall and Pete Whittaker, have just completed what might well be the ultimate UK crack-climbing project – The Great Rift (5.13), a 2500 foot-long splitter beneath a motorway b

Zoe Peetermans and Jack Macdougall took the senior wins at the recent British Lead Climbing Championships at Westway, London.