Moritz Welt has done his second 9a the last month, The Essential in Frankenjura. "A couple of sessions about two years ago, three more tries this autumn! Just perfect!" (c) Manuel Welt At least equally impressive is his 46 boulders 8A to 8B+ and 71 routes 8a+ to 9a, during the last hear. In the Combined Ranking game, the 17 year old German is #3 after Adam Ondra and Daniel Woods.

Loic Zehani has done his tenth 9a with the FA of Les mollahs du mur in Orgon which was bolted by Olivier Bert. "This winter I would love to try "Le Bombé Bleu" at Buoux (maybe 9b) and mythical project for sure. Last year I did almost all the moves (just the first one where I could not do the land a two finger pocket properly after a mega jump. It's a fantastic line in a fantastic place bu it's very dangerous for the fingers." LBB was bolted by Marc Menestrel in 1991. Many of the top climbers like Ben Moon, Stefan Glowacz, Chris Sharma, Fred Rouhling and Iker Pou have tried it saying it is indeed super beautiful. Noteworthy is that in 1993, a french magazine reported it to have been done and graded 9a but today nobody believes this to be true.

James Webb made the FA of La Rustica in 2013 calling it a hard 8B+. Nalle Hukkataival thinks that it merits 8C and have also, instead of the original crouched start, made a full SDS to the extraordinary line. "Well safe to say it’s 8C as shit and also likely the hardest boulder problem in Switzerland. And exceptionally rad."

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Ozzy 2018 - Bouldering in The Grampians from niky_ceria on Vimeo.

Ema Seliskar has done two 8b+' in Kotecnic, Agresija and Katakombe. Earlier this summer she also did her first 8A boulder. Fascinating is that in most Euro Youth Cups this summer she has mainly been #3 among the Slovenian girls. "I started climbing when I was 7 years old and from that day I love climbing more and more every day. I like both outdoors and comps, but on comps am I very nervous and I need to work on that. Outdoors I just climb and I don't think about nothing else only about next move and top and I enjoy. Rock climbing helps me to get my confidence for comps and comps helps me to train harder and harder, so I can be better on rock too. I train 5 times in a week 3 or 4 hours a day. I love training because every training is different and fun also because of my teammate Lucija Tarkuš and my trainer Boštjan Potočnik."

Samson (8A), Burbage South, Peak District from David Mason on Vimeo.