Keyword: Difficulty

Aidan Roberts confirms 9A boulder. How he experienced the ascent of Arrival of the Birds and why he rates the line 9A.

Speculations are true: Aidan Roberts rates his boulder Spots of Time with a difficulty level of 9A.

How British climber Franco Cookson managed to go from 7c+ straight to 9a in four years.

Get ahead where there are a lot of climbers queuing: With these professional tips you can make the jump to the 7th degree.

Eder Lomba is one of the strongest climbers in the world. And yet the young Basque is not yet well known in the climbing scene. This is all the more astonishing given that he made the leap from difficulty level 6a to 9a in just six years.

The fact that Michaela Kiersch is a strong climber has been known since her ascent of the Sharma route Dreamcatcher near Squamish. In Ogden, Utah, she recently underlined that the American is also at the forefront of bouldering. There she climbed her first boulder of this difficulty with Hailstorm (8b +).

In the Sperlonga climbing area between Rome and Naples, Stefano Ghisolfi was the first to climb the l'Arenauta route, drilled by Giuliano Tarquini 20 years ago. He suggests grade 9b as an evaluation.

In the past forty years, the level of difficulty in sport climbing has developed rapidly, but is now flattening out. Where is the limit? Adam Ondra and Magnus Midtbo talk about this during a meeting.