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Mammut's #Project360 Conquers Mount Everest
Mammut has added the southern classical route up to the top of Mount Everest to their #Project 360. Go to Mammut 360 website. "A small group of four Sherpas attended to the honourable task to bring the Everest into the living rooms of the fans of alpine sports by these three-dimensional recordings. Likewise, it is an homage to the first climbers Edmund Hillary and Tensing Norgay who have already chosen this route in 1953. A customized backpack with altogether six cameras facilitates the perfect omnidirectional view. Via mouse click and in pin-sharp quality the virtual climber experiences the challenging climbing passages: He conquers par example the crevasses of the Khumbu Icefall, climbs the Hillary Step, a twelve meters high and steep cliff edge, which represents the final obstacle before he reaches the summit. The reward is the view from highest point on earth โ€“ the choice of the different perspective is always up to the viewer. The recordings are also provided via app.

Cathy Wagner has done her 16th 8a+ of the last year, Mr Power in Verdon. In total, the 50-year-old has done 125 routes of this difficulty, including 11 routes graded 8b. When it comes to 8a's, the French lady has done 421 of them and she is still progressing doing more every year!

First 8c+ by Julia Chanourdie (19)
Julia Chanourdie, #11 in the last year's Lead World Cup, reports on Facebook, "Last saturday I toped my first 8c+ "L'Avaro" in Tetto di Sarre in Italy. It's a first female ascent. Video coming soon!" Tetto di Sarre is probably one of the most chipped crags in the world and in fact it is located in a quarry.

1. Shauna Coxsey 437 - Tomoa Narasaki 298 2. Miho Nonaka 319 - Kokoro Fujii 289 3. Melissa Le Neve 298 - Alexey Rubtsov 262 4. Akiyo Noguchi 259 - Jongwon Chon 238 5. Monika Retschy 200 - Rustam Gelmanov 219 Complete results

Excellent routesetting and a brilliant show where seven female topped out all four Boulders. There were also two male to achieve it, Sean McColl and Jongwon Chon.

The semi live streaming starts at 13 but it will take place without Jan Hojer, Rustam Gelmanov, Jakob Schubert and some other higher-ranked climbers, as Verhoeven and Hori. Among the female, there are no big sensations.

Chon & Coxsey win in Innsbruck
Great show took place in Innsbruck, where we could see Shauna Coxsey winning her fourth World Cup in 2016, meanwhile the overall winner from last year, Jongwon Chon, got his first victory. Giving credit to the route setters, it should be mentioned that all 36 problems throughout the event were topped out. The Swedish national coach, Reino Horak, says that he has never been on a better organized and more exciting climbing competition where the DJ created the perfect background. - When Chongwon matched on the micro hold where other could not even hold with it one hand, the audience got crazy :) With just two events left, Shauna will become the overall champion if she makes it to the podium in one of them even if Miho Nonaka wins the last two. Among the male, at least six have chances for the overall title and in theory, actually 15 still have the possibility. Results are presented below with semi results in brackets. 1. Jongwon Chon (2) - Shauna Coxsey (6) 2. Tomoa Narasaki (5) - Janja Garnbret (5) 3. Sean McColl (1) - Miho Nonaka (2) 4. Roland Rugens (6) - Megan Mescarenas (3) 5. Dimitrii Sharafitdinov (3) - Anna Stรถhr (6) 6. Martin Stranik (4)- Akiyo Noguchi (1) 7. Sol Sa (3) Complete results (c) Eddie Fowke

A record number of 191 participants from 34 countries will compete in Innsbruck for the fifth Bouldering World Cup 2016. This can be compared with 151 two years ago. Live streaming will start on Saturday at 13.00 with the semifinal and 20.00 for the final.

1. Kokoro Fujii:7 255 - Shauna Coxsey:2 337 2. Alexey Rubtsov:15 242 - Melissa Le Neve:10 258 3. Tomoa Narasaki:30 218 - Miho Nonaka:3 254 4. Rustam Gelmanov:6 216 - Akiyo Noguchi:1 212 5. Jan Hojer:2 168 - Monika Retschy:14 172 6. Jeremy Bonder:10 162 - Fanny Gibert:8 171 Complete results Last year results: 2015. Interesting is that many of the highest-ranked male actually were pretty low-ranked in 2015. Furthermore, only two of the Top-8 male are from Western Europe. For the female it is seven out of the Top-9.