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© Megos coll.
Alex Megos on The Mandala sds, ~8B+, Bishop, CA  © Megos coll.
Alex Megos on The Mandala sds, ~8B+, Bishop, CA
© Megos coll.

It seems this year's bouldering season is slowly picking up pace after a somewhat slow start. Nalle hasn't been able to finish his Finnish mega project (yet), but others have been more lucky.

Jimmy Webb, Daniel Woods and Dave Graham have been in Wyoming where they made some first ascents. Jimmy put up The Multiverse and Komodo, both ~8B+ and the latter, a ~30 move compression line was later repeated by both Dave and Daniel.
A week earlier, Dave also repeated Irreversible, another ~8B+ in the RMNP, which was put up by Daniel Woods, who has repeated Paul Robinson's Bossin Up, ~8B+, at the Secret Garden

Meanwhile in Bishop, Alexander Megos, who won Climax Magazine's Olga for Sportclimber of the year 2014, made quick work of Mandala sds, ~8B+, in two short sessions. A feat even more impressive given the fact that it was around 25 degrees when he did it. A couple of days earlier he had also repeated The Swarm. Yep, you guessed it, it's around ~8B+. Isn't everything?

More to come no doubt, and soon Jimmy, Daniel and Alex will gather in Stockholm together with Adam, Jan and Jernej to see who is the world's strongest redpoint boulderer in the La Sportiva Legends Only 2014.

In Japan, Akiyo Noguchi has sampled some rock and given us a taste of what she would be capable of if she dedicated more time to bouldering outside by repeating Aguni, ~8A+, at Mizugaki, in very fine and smooth style too I might add.

Here is the video:


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