Keenan Takahashi, who previoulsy has done four 8C's, has done his first 9a, Coup de Grace in Ticino. (c) Kevin Takashi Smith "My main goal in Swiss; a ten year dream realized as the nightmare of Corona crept in. Climbing is a luxury right now, I feel super lucky to have finished this legendary Dave Graham route just in time. I’m not sure how many sessions, I think 2 or 3 short ones last year and then a handful this year but only 2 where it was dry enough to potentially send.”

Toni Lamprecht has, three weeks ago, done his sixth 8C FA, Angeschossenes Wolf in Kochel, video. In total he has spent some 100 sessions opening up several boulders in that cave. "I thought long if it is good to publish bouldering news now because at the moment the world has bigger problems than solved boulders. But I decided that it could be an inspiration to those who can't climb at the moment, who fight in the health system to save lives, who pray for their relatives, work in the food industry or the markets. You are all our real heroes. So here is a story about a small fight. Hopefully, we can win the big fight, that is going on in the world right now and go out climbing when it is over: On the 3rd of March, I was able to climb the Boulder "Angeschossens Wolf" insufficiently cold conditions. The boulder is identical to "Real Absurdistan" (8C) until move number 11 and then combines it with the "La Paloma"-exit (8A). To me it felt a little bit harder than "Real Absurdistan", but time will tell. Hopefully, the next bouldering days may come for us all and more important at least the next corona free days!"

Mauricio Huerta, #10 in the WCH in Paris in 2012, has done his first 8C by the FA of Jupiter in Mineral del chico. "This boulder was cleaned and first tried by Diego Montull. I’ve worked on this project for 4 years, probably around 40 sessions, but I lost count. Most of them were night sessions so I could take advantage of the better conditions even if Mineral del Chico is not especially warm. The boulder is very crimpy and consists of 8 equally hard moves, which make it a power endurance problem in my opinion. I was able to do all moves on my second session, but it took me all this time to put together all of them."

Daniel Woods reports on Insta that he has done the FA of 4-Low 8C FA in Valle Bavona which originally was found and cleaned by Giuliano Cameroni and Jimmy Webb. It is a seven move 8B+ link into a six moves 8A+ and it took him three full sessions. Now he is back home and he has posted a strong message in regards to staying healthy and giving positive vibes to all doctors and nurses out there. (c) Kevin Takashi Smith "This was the last boulder I sent on my trip to Ticino. The last 10 days were some of the best climbing days of my life. Each day, the threat of Covid-19 grew and grew though. After sending this bloc at 1 a.m. I went to sleep just dreaming of all the hard blocs to come. Next day I woke up to news flashes that covid-19 had risen to 2500 cases, 20 min. from the small valley we lived in (1 hour from Milan). A travel ban was put on by the US (not for US citizens though), swiss police enforced social distancing in stores, swiss police were booting out all cars with foreign license plates (I had italian plates and would have to go back to Milan). These were all signs that told me to get the fuck out, so I did."

Isabelle Faus has done her 25th 8B, Illogical in Scoop. (c) Chad Greedy "Climbs amazing!! Loved the moves on this one... Griffin put this up and I got the 2nd ascent. He thought it was harder than muscle car (v14) but it suited me pretty well so I'm not sure... time will tell for the grade on this one... Seems like a hard 8B to me." She has also done Mandlorian 8A+ and an 8A FA in a new area called Pine Cliff. In total, Isa has done 16 FAs 8A to 8B, meaning she is the female having done the most hard FAs in the world by a big margin. "Contender for the best in Colorado. Found and cleaned these awesome lines in the fall... 35 minutes from the road in the woods.... was here alone a lot and always had my knife in my hand haha."