Andrea Cartas has done her second 8c+, at age 37, by doing La Rubia in Villanueva del Rosario. (c) Javi Pec How was the process taking it down? It was a long process; two springs and this autumn one month. The problem has been that I live 500km from the crag and I have to work and make short trips to try it. So finally in one month I really gave a few good tries. That was hard for the mind. I was really close past May but the heat came. Now, the first day of good conditions, the send happens! What was the key to send it? The perfect day, well-rested and free on my mind not about having to send, just I wanted a lot to climbing in good conditions. What is next? Just enjoy other cool lines at the crag, travel and climbing on sight and maybe try harder soon ;-)

Max Bertone, little brother to Oriane, has done Chykungunya in Ouaki giving it a personal 8c grade, Video. The last week the 12-year-old has also done two 8A's. "I agree with Oriane. Harder than Pari and for sure the hardest route I have done. Maybe I have the advantage to be short and to have little hands. This explain the fact that I felt it harder than 8b+... but not enough to be 8c+, as suggested in the topo."

Cathy Wagner has added two 8a's and a very impressive 2nd go ascent of Guernica 8a+ in Rodellar to her scorecard. In total the 54-year-old has now done 736 routes 8a and harder out of which one third 2nd go.

Gabri Moroni, reports on his Insta that he has made the FA of The Party is Here. (c) Paolo Sortiri "Then, after 8 days of work, when nothing seems to work anymore, on my 4th try of the day and pretty bad conditions, I fought my way up, managed to stick the move I fell countless times and kept it together! Another great moment I will hardly forget..."

James Webb, who previoulsy has done three 8C+', has done his 27th 8C, Virgo which is a FA in Tahoe. "Lost in Space proj. Really sick pitbul that packs a punch. Unsure on the grade. Could be easier? Finger is on the mend! What he means by that is explained in his Insta. "After leaving Rocklands with a finger injury I’ve been struggling to heal up and stay strong. Recently though I found an amazing project here in Tahoe that was ultra comfy for the left hand." In the 8a ranking game, Jimmy is #1.

By looking at the starting list for Inzai this weekend, we can see that actually many of the best Europeans have chosen to not take part. There are currently 11 Europeans in the Top-20 ranking and as a matter of a fact only four of them will participate. Checking the same Top-20 list, we can see that only four athletes will have taken part in all six events. This means when it comes to the Combined ranking, many not so strong climbers have a golden oppurtunity to get a very good result that could put them high on the overall Lead as well as the Combined ranking. It should be mentioned that in regards the women, it is much better. Most of the best will participate in Xiamen.

The last World Cup of 2019 will take place in Inzai this weekend. Tomoa Narasaki and Janja Garnbret have secured their titles. The result is based on the two best ranking results among the once having done at least two comps in the three disciplines, i.e the relative ranking results. 1. Tomoa Narasaki 1 728 - Janja Garnbret 195 2. Adam Ondra 2 072 - Akiyo Noguchi 3 456 3. Jakob Schubert 27 720 - Jessica Pilz 12 420 4. Kai Harada 34 020 - Lucka Rakovec 144 256 5. Kokoro Fujii 84 700 - Miho Nonaka 201 600 6. Sean McColl 182 400 - YueTong Zhang 205 620 7. YuFei Pan 215 040 - Julia Chanourdie 285 120 8. William Bosi 429 624 - Ai Mori 440 154 Complete results Before Xiamen, Ondra was not listed as he had not scored two results in each discipline. In practice, this means that almost all got a worse calculated score as soon all his six Top-2 results were added to the ranking. It is impossible to speculate further who has the best chance to become #3 after Adam Ondra or who will make it to Toulouse.