Here is a quick draft for Climber of 2017. As all previous years, we give more credit to the ones doing many ascents in different disciplines. Please comment to update the list. 1. Janja Garnbret 2. Adam Ondra 3. Alex Megos 4. Stefano Ghisolfi 5. Alex Puccio 6. Anak Verhoeven 7. Jan Hojer 8. Angela Eiter 9. Margo Hayes 10. Alexey Rubtsov, Tomoa Narasaki, James Webb, Shauna Coxsey, Ashima Shiraishi, Jongwon Chon, Mikaela Kiersch, Jernej Kruder, Jakob Schubert, Romain Desgranges, Laura Rogara, Keita Watabe, Christof Rauch, Akiyo Noguchi, Stasa Gejo, Moho Nonaka, Jain Kim, Nalle Hukkataival, Charles Alber, Kokoro Fujii, Claire Buhrfeind, Domen Skofic, Mina Markovic, Jonathan Siegrist, Jessica Pilz, Julia Chanouride, Molly Thompson-Smith, Keiichiro Korenaga, Chris Sharma, Ryuichi Murai, Alberto Rocasolano, Piotr Schab, Paul Robinson, Jorge Diaz-Rullo, Daisuke Ichimiya, Dai Koyamada, Lara Neumeier, Karoline Sinnhuber, Nina Williams, Katherine Choong, Jorg Verhoeven, Steve McClure, David Graham, Daniel Woods, Anna Stöhr, Sasha Digiulian, Dani Andrada, Nina Caprez, Sean McColl, Melissa Le Neve, Ramon Julian Puigblanque, Giuliano Cameroni, Seb Bouin, Steve McClure, Gabri Moroni, Mathieu Bouyoud, Patxi Usobiaga, David Firnenburg, Toby Saxton, Daniel Fuertes, Ned Feehally

Jonathan Siegrist, one of the top climbers the last ten years who did three 9a+' this year, has signed up to 8a with 270 recorded ascents, including several personal grades. He is also active on Instagram. In the 8a ranking game J-Star is #4 and Rock & Ice has done a 2017 summary interview.

That are several ranking games which do not normally get any attention. Here are some of the high ranked climbing very hard almost under the radar. Gender & Age ranking #5 Bernhard Schwaiger - 75 Boulders #11 Moritz Welt - 01 #2 Chuck Odette - 55 Routes #6 Franz Fackler - 60 #7 Jolly Lamberti - 64 #8 Beppe Castellini - 52 11 Steve Crowe - 57 #17 Anna Enrich - 62 Onsight & Flashes #4 Daniel Moreno #2 Fanny Dong #3 Alex Khazanov #1 Katie Lambert Combined ranking #2 Jorge Diaz-Rullo

Baptiste Dherbilly did the first repeat of Fred Rouhling's Salamandre 9b from 2007 this October. As his personal previous best was 8c+ he could not comment on the 9a+ FA suggestion. "I like the sensation when I climb at my supra max level because I have to be really focus on the present moment and all the other thing about the life are leaving my head. I am just thinking about my movement and my climb. This route was a myth for me because the poster of Fred was my first climbing poster when I began climbing."

Adam Ondra has been some days in Sperlonga outside Rome where he did the FA of La Teoria del Gest 9a. "Climb most of Grandi Gesti, keep left all the way to the Cavalieri Selvaggi anchor. Unfortunately good kneebar before the final crux, which is reachy and all about strange fingerlock." The original and often repeated Grande Gesti he gave a personal 8c+ grade. He was also trying another variation that could be. More great pictures atLivellozero.net

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Sachi Amma reports on Instagram that he has done the FA of Maturity 9a+ in Gozen Rock after two months of work. The crag was recently opened again after being closed for 30 years because bad manners of climbers. (c) Hiroki Hori Sachi stopped competing after he won the World Cup in 2014. Next year he reached his goal to do ten routes 9a or harder. In 2016, he has slowly been shifting again and just stopped doing hard routes after a 9a+ in Flatanger. One year ago we made an interesting interview with him where he sad he had totally lost motivation doing hard routes.