Adam Ondra has onsighted his 19th 8c+, First Flight in Acephale. Later he also onsighted Ojas 8b+ in the most impressive style. "Slab! no chalk on the wall, clipping the draws" Gripped reports that Megos in 2016 said, "If anybody ever onsights that thing, that’s at least as impressive as flashing 9a." In total he has now onisghted 162 routes 8b+ and harder and it is actually in the onsight discipline, he is most superior. The runner up in the 8a database is Piots Schaab with 22 onsights 8b+ and 8c. Overall, Kleman Becan could be the runner up and a wild guess is that he has onsighted around 35 routes 8b+ and harder. (c) Petr Pavlicek, who reports that this and many more ascents will be put on Yoitube soon.

Lair Thibault has done La der des der extension 8c+ and the first repeat of Dani Andrada's Nilsbru, suggesting an upgrade to 9a, in Rodellar. The 26 year old has previously done three 9a FAs. "Very satisfied to do this route which cost me a lot of energy, especially mental. A hold has broken which makes the crux much harder. I did fall 15 times on this move. For a moment I thought of a big 8c + but after thinking, for me it may not be the same rating as Cosi or La der des der, So I propose 9a. I hope it will be done quickly to get more opinions."

Nina Williams, who did her second 8B last week, has done The Automater 8B in RMNP. In the 8a ranking game, the 28 year old is #3. (c) Michael Pang ”Sent this thing twice in a day. My back grazed the pad on the first go and it bugged me. Rested 10 minutes and did it again clean. 8 sessions total. Psyched it's done!!”

Daniel Woods reports on Insta that he has done Nalle Hukkataival's Finnish Line 8C in Rocklands. (c) Brooke Raboutou. "Stoked to make the 5th ascent of Nalle's Finnish line. I saw photos of Nalle on it last year and was awestruck by the lines beauty and movement. The climbing is powerful yet technical as well. It is key to have optimal friction to hold onto these holds. I spent three days working it on a rope then another three to go for the send. Its def one of the harder lines in Rocklands next to Livin large. As for the rest of this trip I want to repeat a few more lines that my friends put up last year, Khoikhoi (8C), try Livin large a bit more (this one is hard for me), and search for some new shit. It snowed last night but it is gone now. Sending temps have arrived. For the rest of this year I have a couple hard projects that I'm psyched on in CO and want to do a return trip to Spain in Dec for First round first minute. Just hyped to send some hard blocs and routes this year.

Cathy Wagner did her first 8a in 1994 being 29 years old. Including one 8a and Tzatziki 8a+ in Valbrona the last week, the 52 year old has now done 668 routes 8a to 8b. Almost one third of them, she has done second go. Time to raise the bar to 8b+?

Karolina Ośka has done her first 8c, Nie dla psa kiełbasa in Pochylec. ”I kept tabs on this route for a long time. Its character fits me perfectly and Pochylec is a rock located close to the Krakow where I live. However, trips, injuries, and other goals, for a long time pushed this project aside up to this year. The crux of the route is at the very end - a crimpy boulder where conditions are very important. Low as for June temperatures made the holds bigger and all elements finally fit :)”

Christof Rauch, has done his 119th boulder 8A and harder the last 12 months by doing Highlander 8C in Sustenpass. The FA was done by Martin Keller after 13 years of projecting it. "This was one of the craziest days I've ever had! At the beginning of the day I hurt my ankle pretty bad and couldn't jump down on my feet. Since I felt really strong and the drive home is quite long for me I decided to still give the Highlander a few tries. Seems like low expectations are the key for me on this powerendurance-monsters! After a huge fight I managed to nab the second ascent of this masterpiece by Martin Keller. About the grade, I am not really sure, probably 8B+/C?! At the end of the day I barely could walk back to the car and my foot was really swollen, later I went to the hospital and found out that I got lucky and my tendons are just strained quite bad."

Margo Hayes reports on Margo Hayes that she has done Joe Kinder's Waka Flocka Flame 8c+ in Rifle. (c) Joe Kinder Here is an 8a training interview after Margo had done La Rambla 9a+ last year, when she also did Biographie 9a+, so outdoors she is a contender for being the #1 female. She has made head lines since 2010 when she did a 7C+ boulder being 12 years old. In 2016, she was the Youth World Champion in both Lead and Boulder. Last year her best result was #6 in the Lead World Cup and she has said her goal is the Olympics, however, she is not in the start list for the first three Lead WCs in Europe this summer.

Jakub Konečný, the last two years Euro Youth Champion, reports on Insta that he has done Proces 9a in Visnove. "Then I wanted to make some pics of myself and 10mins after I accidentally made a second ascent of @adam.ondra ‘s “Procesor” (9a/a+), the extension of this thing. Today the Czech was #2 in the Euro Youth Cup in Uster. The next weekend he will compete in the World Cup in Villars where he last year was #13.

Adam Ondra is spending one month in Canada and started of by onsighting Existence Mundane 8c and Endless Summer 8b in Acephale. (c) Petr Pavlicek Then he will start his preparation for the World Championship in Innsbruck where he plans to also compete in Speed. In the autumn his big goal is to do an onsight try of Salathe wall in Yosemite. It is 35 pitches up to 8a and considered as the best route on El Capitan and normally it takes four days. Ondra hopes to do it in 12 hours. More info on Livellozero, who has translated a full length interview by the Czech Radio Radiozhurnal, where Adam also says. He does not like gyms with just colorful boulder problems as it reduce the variation. Innsbruck has the best wall in the world. He is currently working with a Ballet Master. "I think that my specific training for the speed climbing will be of five or ten percent of my total training volume for the Olympics."