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Bolts are always rock solid, right?

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What are you waiting for? Just jump into the rope. You have a great bolt under you. Wait a minute... are you sure? In this article about...
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Drill in, yes, but please with style

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Maintain a sporting spirit: Michel Piola, Rolando Larcher and Maurizio Oviglia demand more transparency and a clean style on the first ascent.
Climbing

Jonas Schild on the gap between sport and trad climbing

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Jonas Schild on the gap between sport and trad climbing and the futility of drilling traditional routes.
Climbing

Broken hook on the Ammerthaler Wand: cause investigated

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On July 29, 2020, a hook broke out at a top rope stand on the Ammerthaler Wand in the Franconian Jura. The IG Climbing Frankenjura, Fichtelgebirge and Bavarian Forest eV is now publishing the results of an investigation.
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Steps Across the Border - Who can do the complete repetition of this route?

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Steps Across the Border is perhaps the hardest multi-pitch tour without drill hooks in the world. It has been without repetition for 25 years.
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Alexander Megos and Julian Söhnlein's route in Frankenjura got destroyed

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The adhesive hooks of the route The Last Dance (8c +) have been removed by strangers. Alexander Megos sharply criticizes the action.
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Yannick Glatthard and Michal Pitelka remove bolts from the Gran Paradiso route on the Wendenstöcken

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The new route Gran Paradiso on the Wendenstöcken has been removed. Yannick Glatthard and Michal Pitelka criticize the drilling style sharply.

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