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Adam Ondra - A Muerte - F9a
From Bjorn Pohl's Blog:
"Adam Ondra has returned to Spain and Siurana.
This time he crushed Richard Simpson's bouldery two finger pocket horror, A Muerte, F9a, in 3 tries, for its fastest ascent to date."
More Info: Bjorn Pohl's Blog:
RELATED VIDEO BELOW: Cedric Lachat Climbs A Muerte F9a
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Scottish Storm: The Tempest X,9
 Andy Turner and Dave MacLeod Repeat Neil Gresham's test-piece The Tempest:Back in 2001 Neil Gresham caused an ethical hurricane by creating The Tempest, a savagely technical route in Glen Coe. The route has now been repeated by Andy Turner and Dave MacLeod.
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ShAFF Next Weekend: A Preview
 The Sheffield Adventure Film Festival (ShAFF), being held at the Showroom next weekend (12th-14th March), has now matured into its fifth successive year and is set to be the biggest and most diverse yet.Simon Jacques gives us the low down.
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FRI NIGHT VID: Patagonian Adventure
 Tonight's Friday Night Video is a 30 minute special feature from Pete Rhodes. Pete has just returned from an epic adventure in Patagonia with George Ullrich and Mason Earle.
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Scottish Winter Conditions: Full Report 9
 This is the ninth of our regular series of Scottish winter conditions updates from Dan Goodwin of MountainPlan.com."A significant avalanche has swept the West Face of Aonach Dubh in Glen Coe..."
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SIBL Round 6 Report - The Final
On Sunday 28th February 2010, Mile End Climbing Wall hosted the Final of the 2009/10 SIBL series and what a Round it turned out to be. This was the second year in a row Mile End had held the final round and yet again they didn't disappoint.
The route setters at Mile End had worked hard to create some brilliantly thought out problems using their experience to test the skills of the competitors. Routes were set in all of the main rooms including the training areas with the monkey room...
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Welsh Climbing Gets Political
 Welsh Assembly Hosts Lunch-Time Meet for BMC: On the third of March a team of BMC big-wigs and active Welsh climbers headed down to Cardiff to meet up with politicians to recognise the importance of mountaineering for the Welsh nation.
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2010 Piolets d'Or Nominees Announced
 The 2010 nominees for the controversial Piolets d'Or awards have been announced.The awards, which were cancelled back in 2008 due to a major backlash from top Alpinists, have been going from strength to strength with a new ethos and format that has appeased climbers.
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LLAMFF this Weekend and the Padarn Lake Monster
The Llanberis Mountain Film Festival 2010 is this weekend. Get yourself to North Wales. Here's a run down of what's on at LLAMFF 2010, including a competition for kids to draw the Padarn Lake Monster. Has anyone seen or heard of the Padarn Lake Monster? Jack Geldard, UKC's Chief Editor says it goes Grrrrrr, and filmmaker and musician Ray 'Scouse Ray' Saunders says that it's BiiiiGG.
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Daniel Woods - New V15 - Desperanza
American climber Daniel Woods has succeeded on a long standing boulder project in Hueco Tanks.
Desperanza (estimated at V15/Font 8C) is the low start to Esperenza (V14) and adds several hard-ish moves in to an already desperate problem.
Video Link: Deadpoint Magazine
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PHOTOS: Bolger 9a, Ojeda 8c, Andrada 9a+ and Sharma
It's not all winter climbing news, things are hotting up at the Spanish sport climbing crags of Catalunya. English climber Tom Bolger climbed two 9a's last week, Daila Ojeda established her first 8c and Dani Andrada succeeded on two 9a+. And news just in is that Chris Sharma climbed First Ley, 9a+ at Margalef.
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New IX for Robertson & Macpherson
 Guy Robertson and Pete Macpherson have climbed Super Rat which they estimate to be grade IX,9, on the huge Central Gully Wall of Creag an Dubh Loch.
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Scottish Winter Conditions Report
 This is the eighth of our regular series of Scottish winter conditions updates from Dan Goodwin of MountainPlan.com.A lot of snow... A visiting team of top climbers... weather and avalanche links...
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Welsh Winter Frenzy..Two Fat Ladies
 "The perception of Wales as a winter climbing backwater has all changed. This winter it suddenly reared its head to fulfil its potential as the King of the Jungle," said Mark 'Baggy' Richards. The frenzy continues when over a period of five days, two first ascents have been made at VIII and an VIII 8 has had an impressive on-sight third ascent.
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Papert, Gariepy and Audibert Do Scottish Winter
Whilst already discussed in the UKC forums, here is a run down of German climber Ines Papert, and Quebec climbers Audrey Gariepy and Mathieu Audibert's winter climbing trip to Scotland.
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