The little climbing jewel in the midst of the Aegean Sea, Kalymnos, which now features nearly 3 000 bolted sport routes of all levels, welcomes Climbers from all over the world to its international Climbing Festival taking place on October 7th-9th, 2016. In the wake of several successful festivals in previous years, this year’s event is organised by the local municipality with special guests likeAngy Eiter, Roger Schaeli and Urko Carmona Barandiaran. (c) Nikolaos Smalios The festival will include: Stories and adventures presented by the special guests Climbing with the Pros Open Marathon and “Marasi” Competition for kids Slack line, Rope challenge, Deep Water Solo, DJ party, Live Greek traditional dancing and Video and a photo contest. More info at Fesitival Webpage and Facebook Festival Page.

Alex Puccio is back on track after her bad neck injury and has done Atomic Cow 8b and two 8a flashes in Wild Iris. (c) Eddie Morillas - Hardest route to date. I have been climbing for 2 weeks now after my forced 2.5 month break due to having a spinal fusion surgery in my neck. It has also been about 8 years since I last really sport climbed outside. Psyched to be climbing again and in 8 days I get my 3 month post OP x-ray and hopefully good news to start bouldering again!

Same Same But Different - Official Trailer from hannes mair on Vimeo.

South Africa august 2016 from martin mobraten on Vimeo.

97: Kajsa Rosén SWE - Sergei Bydetev RUS 99: Eva Maria Hammelmüller ITA - Jakub Konecny CZE 01: Laura Rogora ITA - Noe Moutault FRA Overall, Italy and France had the best results, braking the domination Austria has had for several years. Among the big climbing nations that had relatively weak results were as usual Germany and Spain. There were also Speed Championships and interestingly, Sam Avezou from France was fifth at 8.50 seconds, which is around the result of Sean McColl's, who is the only senior who has participated in Combined for several years. Last year, Sam won the Youth Worlds in Lead and this year he has won the three last Euro Cups in Boulder including the last Championship. A bit early said, but this 15-year-old could be a man for Tokyo 2020.