Janja Garnbret, who finished of 2017 by doing a 9a in Santa Linya, started of 2018 in the same way by doing La fabela pa la enmienda 9a and Blomu 8c+. Tobias Lanzanasto

Loic Zehani, who previously has done eight 9a's, has done Fast and Furious which is a link up of an 8b start into an 8c+ in Orgon. "It is a very resistant way (47 movements) with some hard clips. Very homogeneous and all the time very physical. The "Playmobils sector" is not the most beautiful place for climb in the world but there are some very nice hard ways to climb and also, to be honest, chipped holds."

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Jessica Pilz and Hannah Schubert have spent some great days in Santa Linya where they both did Fabelita and several 8b's. (c) of Hannah by Andreas Aufschnaiter Last year, Jessica (21) was #4 and Hannah (20) #10 in the Lead World Cup. Previously they are both double Lead Youth World Champions and they will both try to go to the Olympics and the same goes for Hannah's big brother Jakob.

For the 15th year in a row...

Jorge Diaz-rullo has onsighted Falconetti 8b+ in Montsant and the 18 year old goes to #2 in the Combined 8a ranking game.

Jakob Schubert, one of the very best competition climbers the last eight years, reports on Instagram that he has done Stoking the Fire 9b in Santa Linya. (c) Shinta Ozawa