In 2005, Tommy Caldwell did open Magic Mushroom 8b+ on El Cap. Barbara Zangerl and Jacopo Larcher did the first repeat of it in 2017 after spending eleven days on the 900 meter wall. Here is Babsi's story focusing on the adventure and partnership with Jacopo.

Loic Zehani has made the FA of La fiesta del biceps 9a in Gargantua. This was the 17 year old's ninth 9a out of which the first one he did just 14 years old. This spring he also repeated his first 9a+. "La fiesta del biceps" is a very big overhanging route located in a big cave close to Avignon in south of France. Many route are manufactured but it's interesting for the gestural and very impressing 35 meters roof (or big overhang).The route is compose of three parts: the first part is a stamina part (8c) on pockets, sometimes without feet. After a rest on two good holds but in a roof you have a second part more bouldery in a big overhang. This is the "crux" in the sending. After another physical rest you have the last part (the easy one) but you are tired and I think it's possibly to fall. I think it's possibly 9a. It was bolted by Thomas Sandri and Alexandre Serres. Here is video of the send.”

Adam Ondra finishes of his Canada trip by doing the FA of Sacrifice 9a+ in Echo Canyon. ”Nice project to the right of Honor and Glory, bolted by Evan Hau. Hard kneebar boulderproblem into pumpy climbing.” (c) Petr Pavlicek Bernartwood On Insta Adam explains the sname of the route. "As much as it is fun to climb on established routes, we should give a credit to everyone who makes the "sacrifice" to bolt and clean the routes for all of us!"

Isabelle Faus, who previously has done two 8B+’, has done her 14th 8B, Doppelgänger Poltergeist in RMNP, in just four sessions. James Lucas ”Did all the moves the first day and fell on the end on the 2nd, then the boulder started being wet. Ending up doing it while it was soaked just cause I was so psyched, and i tired super super hard to make sure I finished it! Psyched to step my game up more! Great power endurance boulder tho! Definitely a hard 8b, excited to feel good coming to Africa :)"

Manu Lopez has done his third 9a FA, Coup fourré in Faron nord after some 30 days of projecting it. Fanatic Climbing has the full report including more pics by (c) Théo Cartier "I wanted to finish it this spring before the birth of my son but conditions were bad and the route remained wet. I finally did good progress after the birth, tired by short nights but more fresh with more rests between the climbing days."

Spanish youth champion Mikel Linacisoro and Julija Kruder won the Psicoblock Masters in A Coruña, Spain, during the Street Stunts festival. Nacho Sánchez set the superb routes where the fastest climber of each round was the winner. The final rounds were super exciting due to the rain and the wet top holds. Mikel won the comp just one hold further than psicobloc legend Chris Sharma. The comp format was brilliant and a completly success despite the rain in front of 3.000 spectators. In the picture venezuelan Francis Guillén learning to fly on the training session before the comp. ©Talo Martín 1-Mikel Linacisoro ESP - Julija Kruder SLO 2-Chris Sharma USA - Svana Bjarnason FRA 3-Jernej Kruder SLO - Fanny Gibert FRA

Adam Ondra has done the FA of Disbelief 9b in Acephale. "Project from Calgary climber Josh Muller who worked on it quite a bit and actually did all the moves! Took me 8 days of effort, mental battle with one low percentage. In the end, I think it is pretty high-end 9b, but I do not have the courage to call it 9b+. 7C+ into 8C boulder without any rest into easy finish." More info on his Insta where he also says, "I cannot think many other routes where I climbed so close to my limit."(c) Petr Pavlicek - Bernartwood In total Adam has now, beside three 9b+' and one 9c FAs, 19 routes graded 9b out of which 13 FAs. The runner ups in the 9b and harder stat are Chris Sharma with eight routes followed by Stefano Ghisolfi four, Alex Megos, Jakob Schubert and Dani Andrada with three.