V17

'L'Ombre du Voyageur' was proposed at V17, without shoes. Using shoes, gloves, and four kneepads, the second ascensionist says it’s just V14.

'Realm of Tor’ment' is Bosi’s fifth V17 boulder, the UK’s second, and his first proposal at the grade.

“I want to redefine what we think of as possible,” McArthur said after his rapid ascent.

We spoke to the British climber to learn how he managed one of the world's hardest boulders in under two weeks.

Bosi, who has now climbed three V17 boulders, considers ‘Return of the Sleepwalker’ harder than ‘Alphane’ but easier than ‘Burden of Dreams’

The Belgian (who found some new beta) is arguably the first person to climb three V17s. He’s also the only person to both FA and repeat the grade.

No shoes, no problem. The barefoot Frenchman is back with another potential V17, 'L’Ombre du Voyageur.'

Climbing is built on the honor system, which is super easy to take advantage of. Seriously. Here’s how to do it.

That’s right: Aidan Roberts’s famous 3D scans of ‘Burden of Dreams’ are being produced at scale.

The crux of 'Magical Thinking' has an 80-plus-foot fall potential—with a leg-snapping slab lurking below.

The 24-year-old Scot says that the problem is by far his hardest to date.

Will Bosi has been livestreaming his attempts on Burden of Dreams. There's a lot to talk about.

He spent 20+ days on the climb and says "Alphane" and "Soudain Seul" feel comparable

“I personally felt that ‘Honey Badger’ (V16) was more of a challenge for me.”

On October 20, Aidan Roberts made the second ascent of “Alphane,” a V17 established by Shawn Raboutou in Switzerland last spring. We caught up with Aidan to chat about it.

Raboutou at last discloses one of his two rumored V17 ascents.

Soudain Seul is the hardest problem in Fontainebleau. But it's unclear how hard it actually is.

Doing the climb was a three-month journey in the desert, one that took complete and utter dedication.

"I told myself, 'If you want to be able to adapt to these moves and get strong enough to do this thing, you're going to have to have complete obsession over it."

On March 27, the 23-year-old French climber Nico Pelorson did the second ascent Soudain Seul (aka The Big Island Sit), Simon Lorenzi’s proposed V17 in Font, suggesting a slight downgrade to V16.

"It’s all just a game people... and I play the game," Daniel Woods wrote in announcing the new problem, one of just a handful of proposed V17s in the world. "The game is how comfortable can you become with your own insanity.”

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Ryohei Kameyama has made the first repeat of a proposed 9A/V17 problem

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Nalle Hukkataival, Helsinki, Finland

With the world’s first proposed V17, is climbing reaching a new level or becoming a numbers game?

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