G.Chaziris has visited Kyparissi and written a very positive article. - Kyparissi is really, REALLY amazing. The place is secluded and beautiful, the surrounding nature is spectacular and as scenic as it gets, and the rock is top notch. In addition the locals (and most importantly the local authorities) are friendly disposed towards climbing. Everything looks great.

Eduard Marin confirms that he is in his best shape ever by doing Seleccion Anal 9a+ in Santa Linya. The Spaniard did his first 9a and 9a+ in 2008 but then it took seven years to do his second 9a+ and also Chilam Balam 9b just two months ago. The best possible explanation for him stepping one level up is the super intense training regime he started together with Dani Andrada and Paxti Usobiaga this autumn that were also captured in videos. In 2003, Edu became the Youth World Champion and in 2006 he won one Lead WC and just missed the final once out of seven events. He is also famous for doing hard Big Wall climbing together with his father.

Jakob Schubert reports on Facebook with a great picture by © Elias Holzknecht/ WOODSLAVE productions, "LA PLANTA DE SHIVA! After the biggest fight of my life I managed to clip the anchor of this amazing 9b in Villanueva del Rosario. 2nd Ascent after Adam Ondra. Super happy and proud to have send this one, my hardest route so far. Time for fiesta!" Jakob has been the best male lead competition climber in the world since 2010 and in 2011 he won seven events straight. He also won overall in 2014 and last year he was #3. The Austrian is the fourth climber after Ondra, Sharma and Andrada to have done two 9b's. Here is a new Podcast. "The process was actually rather special and I learned a lot about trying something that hard. The first few days on the route were pretty frustrating and I felt like I'm not strong enough for this route. I think it's the hardest route I have ever tried and because the rock is so special on the 9b part it's very difficult to find the right beta and can take a lot of time. I kind of gave up on the route and climbed some easier ones for some days, but since it didn't get out of my head, I returned with more motivation and a better mindset and suddenly made a lot of progress. The send was epic, I almost fell at the second to last move and fought super hard to reach the last hold. Really happy and proud of this one. 2016 I will only do the Lead season (+BWC in Innsbruck) mostly because I want to have more time to climb outside until spring. I will fly to Hueco for 3 weeks beginning of February and after we have a 10 day training camp with the national team in Fontainebleau and in Andalusia. After that I'm not sure about my plans yet, but I really want to go back to Flatanger since it's such an amazing place and I would really love to try 'Move'.

Hannah Schubert, double youth world champion, has done El gran blau 8b+ (c) in Oliana. The 18-year-old is Jakob Schubert's younger sister. In 2015, she participated in the Lead WC three times and her worst result was #19.

hugo parmentier has been on a trip to Siurana, where he managed to onsight Kale borroka 8b+. His previous best onsight was an 8a! In the Youth World Championship in Arco, Hugo got the bronze in both Lead and Boulder.

Jernej Kruder, runner up in the Boulder World Championship 2014, has made a report with many great pictures from his bolting expedition to Dalmatia in Croatia. - Dalmatia is a bit different from Spain or Misja pec. There are not so many big sectors but if you drive along the coast, you have walls on every kilometer.Pretty much all of them you can see from the road. Now the main thing was Vrulja which you see in the pictures and where there are many caves. Now there are three projects and there is place for some harder things as well.

Hueco Tanks 2016 from martin mobraten on Vimeo.

Three Peak Films - 2016 Reel from Three Peak Films on Vimeo.

L. Matyas - Climbing the FULL replica of Action Directe from L. Matyas on Vimeo.

Timy Fairfield was one of the best climbers during the 90s. Now he is back being 45 with a 8C FA. "This brilliant test-piece is steep, elegantly choreographed, gymnastically specific, savagely powerful, explosive, absolutely hard and 100% natural - the way I like it! This is one of the best lines that I have ever authored."

"THROWBACK" from Timy Fairfield on Vimeo.