Keyword: Boulder

Drew Ruana crowns an extremely successful year with the first ascent of Bookkeeping (8C+) in Colorado. The strong American climbed numerous difficult boulders in 2022, including Distortion (8C +, FA) in Lincoln Cave, The Player (8C, FA) and Ice Knife sit (8C +).

The strong Belgian Simon Lorenzi secures an inspection of Alphane. This makes the 25-year-old the third climber this year to repeat Shawn Raboutou's line in Chironico since the first ascent in April.

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Burden of Dreams is the first 9A boulder in the world and has not been repeated since Nalle Hukkataival first climbed it in 2016. Shawn Raboutou recently attempted the tough problem in Lappnor, Finland.

A spray wall is as simple as it is effective as a training tool. One of the people who is very familiar with this type of training wall is the Czech climbing professional Adam Ondra. He has completed a large part of his previous training on spray walls. In the video he explains what is important when screwing.

As early as the middle of this year, there were rumors of two 9A boulders that Shawn Raboutou is said to have first climbed in spring 2022. One of them is Alphane in Ticino, the second Megatron in Eldorado Canyon near Colorado. Now the video for the second 9A first ascent by Shawn Raboutou is online.

Stefano Ghisolfi, who not so long ago was still on the most difficult sport climbing route in the world, swaps a climbing rope for a crash pad. In Chironico, he tries his hand at one of the world's toughest boulders: Alphane (9A), guided by Shawn Raboutou, the first ascent.

Kim Marschner has given the Furka Pass rows of impressive boulders. He shows an excerpt of it in this video.