Fontainebleau - One Week from Eliot Stephens on Vimeo.

Stefano Ghisolfi does Noia in Andonno, the first 8c+ in Italy put up more than 20 years ago by Seve Scassa, however it is chipped as many of the hardest routes were at that time. Stefano has been a succesful copetition climber since 2007 and last year he was #10 in the Lead World Cup. (c) Patrik Franza Photo on Instagram.

More info here and amzing pics from Caroline Ciavaldini and James Pearson's exploring expedition of El Nido in the Phillippines.

loic Timmermans had a great 19th birthday by doing Fabelita 8c in Santa Linya and then four days later he did his second 8c+, Fabela. Now he is working the 9a extension. "It's going very well so hopefully I will have the time before the end of the week! In 2012, Loic was the European Youth Champion. "This year I will do ALL the world cups. Unfortunately I won't go to the WCH in Gijon as I want to participate at the World Youth CH. in Noumea. With the new dates, it's impossible to do both.

The spring 2014 has been the busiest ever and as an example the biggest climbing hotel, Philoxenia has been fully booked for a couple of weeks. Wild Sports have started their second shop and the new rescue service founded by Alternet, with the equipment donated by Wild Sports, is up and running. The picture from Aris Theodoropoulos shows the rescue team in action saving a couple rapelling of the wrong anchor with the rope not reaching the ground. In order to support the rescue you can by a Kalymnos card which also gives you discounts on several shops, restaurants and hotels. Climb Kalymnos reports that it is now safe again to climb in Arginonta. In November 2013, "a severe thunderstorm caused a big flake to come loose and hang precariously from a single bolt (!) 30m above the ground." Since last season, several hundreds routes have been bolted or rebolted and 200 blue recycling bins for paper, plastic, glass and metal have been placed out. The official dates for The North Face Festival is 9 - 12 october so be quick to book up the flight tickets :)

Jan hojer has signed up to the impressive list of repeaters to The Story of Two World's 8C in Cresciano. It was set up in 2005 by Dave Graham and the name referred to the previous grade inflation. The 22 year old German, who won one Boulder WC last year, has also done Big Kat 8B+ in Chironico and his scorecard shows a six years straight progress and he is now #3 in the ranking game.

The Secrets of So iLL from Float Faction on Vimeo.