99boulders.com has together with Willis Kuelth created the complete 9a+ to 9c statistics, including a diagram showing the great progress. In total we are talking 69 9a+, 7 9a+/b, 24 9b, 2 9b/+, 3 9b+ and Silence 9c. In total 69 climbers are listed, including Margo Hayes, Anak Verhoeven and Angela Eiter. Noteworthy is that 92 % of the ascents have been done in Europe, with a concentration around Lleida in Spain. Here are the most repeated. 19 La Rambla - FA Ramon Julian Puigblanque 18 Papichulo - FA Chris Sharma 15 Biographie - FA Chris Sharma 11 Thor's Hammer - FA Adam Ondra 05 Chilam Balam (9b) - FA Bernabe Fernandez Alex Huber's Open Air from 1996 is listed to be the first 9a+ because of Adam Ondra's upgrade and probably also due to that Huber having said it should be due to the grade inflation. It should be mentioned that grades are subjective and there just might be some further up- and down grades that can change the list. Currently Ondra has done 23 of the 30 listed 9b or harder.

Nina Williams has done her Window Shopper in Flagstaff which is her fourth 8A+ the last eight months and she is #2 in the 8a ranking game. (c) Alex Kahn "Extremely finger-position specific. Getting the far right hand determined how the come-in move to the crystal crimp felt... The crystal crimp determined how the next three slaps felt. I used an insecure high right heel for the end moves and never trusted it. Came down to micro-beta and getting out of my own head. Not sure if I ever really got out honestly... Just pure luck on the send :P Epic mental battle."

Adam Ondra reports on his Instagram, with 174 000 followers, that he has done the first repeat of Pirmin Bertle's Meiose in Charmey on his 3rd go giving it a personal grade of 9a+. In the video below you can see Adam finds a no-hands kneebar. Out of all 36 9a+ (b) and harder listed on 99 boulders.com Adam has done 24. Including also his latest recorded 9a, Retour Gagnant in St Legere, "Done with a headlamp in the end of the day. Waiting for the big projects to dry up, hopefully...", Adam has now done 153 9a's and harder. Here you can sign up for one of Adam's training session in March in Spain.

Ett inlägg delat av Adam Ondra (@adam.ondra) 1 Feb 2018 kl. 1:30 PST

Rafa Fanega has done his fifth 8c+, Alhakan in El Chorro, the last 9 months. The 43 year old did his first 8c when he was 35 years old and first 8c+ when he was 39. Interestingly he started climbing when he was 16 so we are talking about a really late bloomer. Rafa has bolted 1 000+ routes and most of which he has paid from his own pocket. In total, he has recorded almost 2 000 routes on his scorecard. "For me bolting is as important as climbing." The picture is from last year in Fin del Mundo where the 163 cm tall has put up most of his routes (c) Rual Santano.

Jonathan Siegrist, a new 8a member who has done 31 routes 9a and harder, shows a very easy way to make a stick-clip so you can work the bottom crux more safely.

Nacho Sánchez reports in his Instagram that he has done the first repeat of Beto Rocasolano's test piece El Indomable 8C+ in Tamajón, Spain, calling it hard 8C. In total Nacho has done six boulders 8C or harder out of which four FAs, including Crisis. Is this one of your hardest problems? Yes it is, but Crisis 8C (+) took me more effort cause maybe it was not my style. El Indomable has some endurance but also has much less moves.

Ramon Julian did his first Lead World Cup in 2001 when he was 19 years old. In total he has now done 120 WC's including being #8 in his last 2017. He has won 20 WC and gotten 6 599 points which is most in the history among the male. Three times he has won the European Championship and twice the World Championship*. Overall, the 159 cm tall could be considered the best ever male IFSC competitor. *In 2005 he won the semifinal but his coach did not know the changed the isolation time so he was not allowed to compete. Instead he saw most topping out the final route a way too easy route! Eddie Fowke - The Circuit Climbing