Björn Pohl

Adam Ondra has onsighted Il Domani (5.14d) in the Baltzola cave, Basque country, Spain.

Jan Hojer has repeated Dave Graham's The Story of two Worlds (V15), and made the second ascent of Jimmy Webb's Big Kat (V14) in Ticino, Switzerland.

Super strong Japanese boulderer Dai Koyamada has made the first ascent of a new and exceptionally hard boulder problem now named Vanitas (V15) at Mt. Horai in Japan.

Adam Ondra has made the first ascent of Vasil Vasil, 9b+ (5.15c), a route he bolted himself five years ago at Sloup in the Czech Republic. Check out this interview with Ondra on his latest testpiece.

After a fierce battle with the hardest set of problems that has ever been competed on, Jimmy Webb took home an impressive victory at this year's La Sportiva Legends Only at Klättercentret in Stockholm.

Dave Graham continued his good form last week in Switzerland when he made the first ascent of a new line, Foundation's Edge (V15). Graham has been on a tear this year, having made repeats of The Wheel of Wolvo (V15) at Mt. Evans and Bad Girls Club (5.14d) at Rifle Mountain Park .

Tsukuru Hori sends Memento (V14) and flashes four more V11s, one in his sneakers!

Recently, Adam Ondra became the second ever to onsight a 9a (5.14d). The route was La Cabane au Canada at Rawyl, Switzerland. Here is the Cabane au Canada interview.

Most seem to agree it's very difficult to see short power problems getting a whole lot harder. There simply seems to be a limit to what physically possible to hang on to, even for mutants - skin will be skin after all, and friction can only help you that much.

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A little more than a year ago, after years of projecting, James Kassay, 27, of Australia, repeated Dai Koyamada's 65+-move-monster The Wheel of Life.