Renowned boulderer Mike Adams has recently swopped his bouldering pad for harness, double ropes and wires/cams and has been hammering the trad classics big time!
The first-ever consensus 5.15a was climbed in France. It has become a rite of passage for strong climbers
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Eliot Stephens has made the first ascent of a new Font 8C/V15 at Oxwich Bay Quarry, naming it Zircon (f8C).
https://www.ukclimbing.com/forums/t.php?n=779307
“I think it was the hardest day of climbing of my life,” Anna Hazelnutt said
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A new film just dropped about a 2021 repeat of one of the longest traverses in the U.K.
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