V14

Flashing Decided was just the icing on the cake for Narasaki this year.

August 2019. Linda Sjödin from Sweden tries to send New Base Line (8B+/V14). If she succeeds, she'll be the 11th woman in history to have sent the grade... And almost no-one knows who she is.

Isabelle Faus taking down Dave Graham's Memory is Parallax (V14).

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Bullet rock, committing moves up high, on a big, beautiful block that's far from the road. Kintsugi (V14/15) has all the pleasing features to be considered a King Line.

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Alex Puccio takes on the Leavenworth bouldering testpiece The Penrose Step (V14)! She returns for a rematch on the granite goodness of the PNW... This time, taking down Beautification (V11), Turbulence (V12) and, the main event, The Penrose Step.

Litz established Peruvian Necktie and Ace of Spades in Utah's off-the-beaten-path Pop Tire Cave. Woods made the second ascent of the latter, which he thinks is 5.15a, and thinks the former could be even harder.

The American climber snags a send of Noise vs. Beauty (8B+/8C) in Rocklands, South Africa.

Wow, do we wish we were as strong as Puccio!

Two V15s and a V14 are all in a day's work for up-and-coming Japanese boulderer Shinichiro Nomura

Takahashi goes on a tear in Leavenworth, Washington, sending 17 double-digit boulder problems in just three weeks.