The 2021 World Championships in Moscow have concluded with GB athlete Hamish McArthur taking bronze in Lead in his first senior World Championships!

The hot news from Pavey Ark in the Lake District is that Steve McClure has just made the 2nd ascent of Lexicon, Neil Gresham’s new E11.

The ABC held their 2021 annual conference recently; it was the first since the pandemic and the biggest event to date with loads of new shiny climbing related stuff on display.

Dave MacLeod has recently added a new E9 to Titan’s Wall on Carn Dearg on the North Face of Ben Nevis.

Neil Gresham recently did the first ascent of Lexicon on Pavey Ark, Lake District. Graded E11 7a it’s now one of the hardest trad routes in the country.

Katherine Choong is having a great summer plucking Euro-plums, Helix au pays des Merveilles (F8c+) and 6.4 Sekunden (F8b/+).

American climbers Paige Claassen and Micheala Kirsch have both redpointed Dreamcatcher (5.14d/F9a), Chris Sharma’s classic testpiece at Squamish, Canada

Siebe Vanhee has repeated Project Fear (F8b+) in the Dolomites, linking all the hard pitches in one massive pitch.

Hamish McArthur, Emily Philips and Toby Roberts take 3 golds and 3 silvers between them in Youth World Championships.

Last Friday, Josh Ibbotson redpointed Northern Lights (F9a) at Kilnsey, Yorkshire.

Last Monday, Jakob Schubert flashed another Font 8B+, Anam Cara - his third of the grade.

Following his second ascent of Bibliographie, Stefano Ghisolfi has proposed a downgrade to F9b+ and Alex Megos has agreed!