Moritz Welt has done Zerberus, "Simply one of the best! Fell three times on the very last move in my second session, today solid first go!" and For about life for a while in Frankenjura and he agrees with the down grading to 8B. The same day he also did the FA of the left crux start variation also calling it 8B. All three went down in just some few sessions and although having done 34 boulder 8A and harder, the 16 year almost never needed to project them down. When it comes to routes, he has done one 9a and there he spent six days. (c) Franz Kaiser

Based on polls, including 5 500+ unique votes, who are the male and female climbing heroes, here are the results. Interesting is that it is mainly outdoor climbers that did get most of the votes and no specific boulderer made it through. Originally many more name were mentioned but later they below 2 % were put into other. 33 % Adam Ondra - Lynn Hill 35 % 17 % Chris Sharma - Margo Hayes 12 % 12 % Wolfgang Güllich - Angela Eiter 11 % 07 % Alex Megos - Alex Puccio 10 % 06 % Alex Honnold, Dani Andrada - Janja Garnbret 10 % 05 % Tommy Caldwell - Josune Bereziartu 7 % 03 % Yuji Hirayama - Shauna Coxsey 6 % 10 % Other - Other 8 % Here is the result of the 2015 poll: 23% Lynn Hill 10% Alex Puccio, Ashima Shiraishi 07% Anna Stöhr, Nina Caprez, Josune Bereziartu 05% Jain Kim, Shauna Coxsey, Sasha Digulian 04% Mina Markovic, Angela Eiter, Juliane Wurm, Janja Garnbret 02% Robyn Erbesfield-Raboutou, Allizee Dufraisse, Muriel Sarkany 13 % Chris Sharma 12 % Adam Ondra 9 % Wolfgang Gülich 7 % Fred Nicole, Dave Graham 6 % Tommy Caldwell 5 % Nalle Hukkataival, Alex Megos, Alex Huber, Dani Andrada, Alex Honnold, Jimmy Webb 3 % Daniel Woods, Yuji Hirayama, Jan Hojer, Sean McColl

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Nina Williams has done her seventh 8A+, A Maze of death in Bishop. "Turkey-day sending!! Had to figure out my own special beta. 3rd go, 3 days this season." In the 8a ranking game, Nina is #4. (c) James Lucas

Ryohei Kameyama just did three 8B+' and two 8C's in Font. "My training is mainly to climb hard problem at climbing gym. I often use Moon board. I try it, and make my finger stronger. My next project is Gioia 8C+."