Alex Puccio has done her fourth 8B during the last five weeks, Dark Waters in Clear Creek Canyon. In the 8a ranking game, the runner up in the last world championship is #25 even if she did go through knee surgery this spring. (c) Chris Motta "This Boulder was an epic for me! It took me longer than any other climb I have done to date!! This was my 8th day on in over 6 year period. I fell off the last move of this long boulder my first day on it all the ways till I sent it. So so psyched to put this one to rest!!! 😄😄😄😄 thank you for all the support Joel and everyone that came to this Boulder with me! 👊👊😄

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Matilda Söderlund has onsighted Amboss in Frankenjura, which might be the second female 8a+ onsight in Frankenjura after the one that Lynn Hill did on the route Simon back in 1992. Her trainer Dicki Korb from Cafe Kraft comments: "It is so nice to see, how Matilda climbs now. I'm very happy with her performance, cause we worked a lot on her climbing speed and her dynamic, and now she climbs so much faster and more efficient, and so I'm very happy for her. It was a perfect onsight, she just did everything right." As a matter of fact, it was just a spontaneous onsight and as it was mostly pockets, she mainly read the route on the go. In 2006, when Matilda was #6 in he world Championships, and before all her injuries, she onsighted three 8b's and flashed two 8b+'s.

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Christof Rauch, who has done 98 boulders 8A and harder in the last year (probably most in the world), has done two more 8B+'s in Magic Wood: Ill Thrill and The Never Ending Story, "Maybe the problem which took me the most time! Fell much more than 50 times on the first move of the second part. Once I got that first move I did it. Superhappy now!!! Amazing line and awesome moves, no more words needed!" Is there anybody else who has done more than 100 boulders 8A and harder in one year? It should be mentioned that the Austrian often gives personal grades. In 2014, James Webb did 146 boulders 8A and harder which probably is All time high.

Nico Pelorson, #2 in the Youth World Championship this year, has done his second 9a FA in St Pancrasse, La 9ème centenaire. - It is a perfect route, totally natural that was bolted by Quentin Chastagnier There are two sections. The first is really hard and short (drop-knee, heal-hooks above the head...) This section is about 8B boulder I think. Then, you have done the harder part but there is again an 8b crimpy which finishes with an horrible slab. It took my seven sessions for redpointing it.

CTeam.si comes with the amazing news that Janja Garnbret has done Miza za šest 8c+ at Kotecnik, which is a link up of an 8b and 8b+ that she has done before. The 16-year-old has competed in the Lead WC twice in 2015 and both times she was #2. She has also won the Youth World Championship in both bouldering and lead this year. The next weekend, she is competing in front of her home crowd in Kranj and what a sweet story it could be if she handled the pressure and won. (c) Luka Fonda

Staša Gejo started to make headlines in 2010 when she did her first 8b being 12 years old. Although she has been won European Youth Cups every year since 2012, she has just had her competition breakthrough this year by winning both the European and World Youth Championships in Bouldering as well as being #5 in the last WC in Munich. Climbing Family has done a nice interview with great pics from Eddie Fowke.

Marco Zanone, #7 in the 8a Combined ranking game, talks about what he likes the most.