Alex Megos reports on Facebook, BÄÄÄM! First 5.14d (9a) in the New River Gorge. Managed to climb the extension of "Pod" 5.13b (8a) adding a V12 boulder problem after the anchors making it "Superpod" 5.14d (9a)!!! (c) Mike Williams DPM who has the full report with great pictures of Alex on 8c flash.

Isabelle Faus has done the FA of Butterfly 8A+ which makes her the new female leader of the ranking game. "Really psyched, this one is amazing, on the newer boulder we've been going to up above Survival of the fittest... Do any other girls put boulders up?" Alex Puccio had been the 8a ranking game leader for more than five years but was out of game this summer due to a knee surgery. Alex is the first female who did an 8A+ FA and Isabelle is probably the second in the world.

Alex Puccio has done The Power of Ten in RMNP which means she has done 43 boulders 8A+ and harder. (c) Chris Motta "So I thought this boulder was REALLY hard!!! For sure one of the harder 8A+'s for me that I have done. The first 3 moves were ridiculous, maybe there is some secret crazy beta I missed..... Who knows. Powered through and almost greased off the top, but managed to get through it! 😄 This was my second day in it.

Janja Garnbret has won every youth comp she has entered and in the two World Cups she tried, she was both times #2. Slovenian coaches have deliberately held her back in order to try not to put any pressure on her. "It is all about having fun!"

Lebanon has always been a blank area on the map of sport climbing. But with the help of local climber Jad Khoury, Austrian superstar David Lama has recently changed this and did the first ascent of Baatara Gorge Sinkhole near Tannourine, 75 kilometers north of Beirut. Due to its surreal landscape with waterfalls, natural arches and a combination of blue and orange rock mixed with green plants, which reminds of the movie ‘Avatar’, David Lama and his supporter, Jad Khoury, agreed on the name Avaatara’ (9a) for the cascade route descending into Mount Lebanon. © Red Bull Media House David did his first 8a when he was 10 years old and being 16 he won the European Lead Championship and the year later the European Boulder Championship. He is also famous for the FA of the Compressor route on Cerro Torre.

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Alex Khazanov has done Ill thrill 8B+ (C) in Magic Wood. (c) Eddie Fowke "Ohhhh yess!!! Moments like this are a big part of the reason why I climb. I tried it for a few days back in the summer and came back today praying for it to be dry and it was! I set down to try it and boom! Couldn't do almost any move, after a some more tries, just before i was ready to give up, it happened. After a biggg fight and almost falling on every move I found my self on the top. This problem is my hardest to date for sure and I am totally not sure about the grade of this one but this not why we climb. We climb for those special moments. So so happy right now!