V 8a databáze sa nachádza 4.1 milióna prelezov a všetky boli zapísané jedným z nasledujúcich spôsobov: 1. Cez stránku kliknutím "Pridať" v ľavej čast, s možnosťou pridania všetkých detailov cesty či bouldra 2. Cez mobilnú aplikáciu kliknutím "Pridať cez mobil" s menej možnosťami 3. Cez vyhľadávanie v pravej časti, kde stačí nájsť oblasť a následne pridať cestu do Denníčka či Inventára Ak si preliezol známu cestu v známej oblasti a chceš si ju zapísať, možnosť č. 3 bude najrýchlejšia. Ak si naopak spravil niečo nové alebo vyliezol málo lezenú cestu či boulder, najlepšie bude použiť možnosť č.1. Možnosť 3 bude v budúcnosti sprístupnená aj na mobilnej stránke.

Illya Bakhmet-Smolenskyi, who previously has done an 8c, has ticked off three 8b's and onsighted his first 8a last week, Pollastre de granja in Margalef. "It was very scary to clip the last bolt, I did not want to fall. The hardest part is on the first part. It is overhang climbing on small pockets but you can see the way to climb it. After the crux it is nice, vertical climbing that you cant see from the ground. It is my 5th try of trying to onsight an 8a." His mother, Ann, explains that Illya started climbing about five years ago but he has never had any trainers beside his parents, who climb in the 6th grade. Most of the times, Illya climbs outdoor as his parents normally work with IT and travel abroad. In 2014, he won Arco Rock Junior being 9 years old, and did his first 8a+. 8a encourage youngsters to focus mainly on onsights and a broad grade tick list pyramid. We will normally not publish ascents for kids mainly projecting hard redpoints.

Adam Ondra, who now has 51 000+ followers on his Instagram proudly sums up his six weeks in Yosemite. (c) Pavel Blazek "Yosemite climbing is hard. Like really hard. The Free Nose is even harder. @_linacolina_ 's (Lynn Hill) achievement is one the most radical achievements in the climbing history, in my opinion, still not fully appreciated. Hats off. The Dawn Wall is the hardest. I am proud to have done it. Possibly my proudest achievement im climbing. Nevertheless, the effort I had to make is incomparable to what @tommycaldwell and @kjorgeson had to go through, not knowing where to climb and if it is climbable. I think they can be way prouder than me for what they did. El Cap is bad ass. That is the fact. No choss."

Angela Eiter, the best female lead competition climber in the history who has won four world championships, is equally negative towards the suggested Olympic format as Adam Ondra and Chris Sharma. Pic from Paris 2012, (c) Red Bull/S. Gruden "Speaking for myself, I think this Olympic format develops a new direction of competition climbing, where the original philosophy of climbing moves into the background. Nevertheless, it is quite likely that the younger generation adapts better to the new format and probably benefit from training all disciplines and the social settings. Anyway a difficult topic!" So would you have gone for it during your career? No, I wouldn't have gone for it. For me this format doesn't make sense. IFSC has forwarded some suggestions for the combined format which have been questioned by almost all federations. Some of them have gone together informally to suggest a new combined format. The IFSC decision will be made next spring. In fact, there are more top athletes that are equally negative but they have said they want to wait with their comments until the competition season is over.

Currently, the 8a global news are translated into Spanish, French, Swedish and Polish by local contributors that can also publish country specific news. We are looking for more translators and local editors. Just send an email to [email protected]. The biggest country specific pages are USA, Germany, Spain, Italy, Austria, France, Switzerland and Sweden. These countries make between 800 and 3 000 sessions a day.

Just like on Facebook, you can select from which Friends and Crags you will get notifications when an ascent has been added. Just go to your "Friends'" scorecard, click the button at the top and you will automatically see which climbs have been recorded lately. You can do the same thing for Crags and there you can also select which grades you want to follow. The picture shows where to click on "Add to My Friends" in Adam Ondra's scorecard to always stay updated on his latest ascents. Just his scorecard has been visited almost 1 million times. Adam's new Instagram has already 51 000 followers.

jan kares, #17 in 1 Lead WC 1998, is a pull-up and bolting fanatic. Yesterday, he set two new world records by doing 555 pull-ups in 30 minutes first and then 1 018 during 1 hour. His next plan is to go to Sardinia and continue his bolting mission with 600 bolts. Since 2008, the 43-year-old has spent some 150 days bolting, paying for everything by himself. His dream is that this area, close to Cala Gonone, will be one of the best and most famous climbing areas in Europe.

jan kares, #17 na Svetovom pohári v lezení na obtiažnosť v 1998, je maniak do vŕtania a zhybovania. Včera prekoval hneď dva rekordy, keď spravil 555 zhybov za 30 minút a 1018 zhybov za jednu hodinu. Jeho ďalší plán je cesta na Sardíniu, aby pokračoval vo svojej vŕtacej misii so 600 ďalšími borhákmi. Od roku 2008 strávil tento 43 ročný lezec vŕtaním odhadom 150 dní a všetky náklady hradil z vlastného vrecka. Jeho snom je, aby sa táto nová oblasť, nachádzajúca sa blízko Cala Gonone, stala jednou z najlepších a najznámejších lezeckých oblastí v Európe.

Presne tak ako na Facebooku, aj na 8a-čku si môžeš vybrať, od ktorých kamarátov a z ktorých oblastí budeš dostávať upozornenia o nových prelezoch. Stačí kliknúť na Denníček tvojho kamoša a budeš automaticky vidieť, ktoré prelezy má zaznamenané ako posledné. Táto istá možnosť je aj pri sekcii oblasti, kde sa dá dokonca vybrať obtiažnosť, ktorú chceš sledovať. Na obrázku je znázornené, kde presne stačí kliknúť, aby si si mohol "Pridať k Priateľom" Adama Ondru a sledovať jeho najnovšie prelezy. Pre zaujímavosť, jeho Denníček má už viac ako 1 milión pozretí a Adamov Instagram, ktorý sa tiež oplatí pozrieť, má cez 51 000 followerov.

Na obrázku je znázornené, v ktorých mesiacoch pribudlo do 8a databázy najviac prelezov z gréckej oblasti Leonidio. Z ostatných európskych a blízkych oblastí majú podobnú koncentráciu prelezov len turecké Geyikbayiri a španielske El Chorro. Ďalšie obľúbené destinácie sú napríklad San Vito lo Capo na Sicílii, Osp/Mišja Peč v Slovinsku, Arico na Tenerife, Fenda blízko Lisabonu v Portugalsku, Mallorca a oblasti v blízko Malagy, Valencie a Barcelony v Španielsku.