| Country | Contributions | Between | Climbers | Crags | Summits | Climbs | Ascents | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | United Kingdom | 61464 | 14th November 2023 – 9th November 2026 | 1802 | 711 | 0 | 3142 | 5085 |
| 2 | USA | 25595 | 14th November 2023 – 9th November 2026 | 818 | 182 | 2 | 860 | 2423 |
| 3 | France | 12431 | 14th November 2023 – 9th November 2026 | 272 | 126 | 1 | 555 | 1044 |
| 4 | Switzerland | 9697 | 14th November 2023 – 8th November 2026 | 79 | 43 | 1 | 311 | 1127 |
| 5 | Spain | 8829 | 15th November 2023 – 8th November 2026 | 92 | 76 | 0 | 459 | 928 |
| 6 | Italy | 4924 | 16th November 2023 – 8th November 2026 | 120 | 59 | 0 | 189 | 380 |
| 7 | South Africa | 3688 | 16th November 2023 – 5th November 2026 | 12 | 35 | 0 | 128 | 401 |
| 8 | Canada | 3363 | 16th November 2023 – 1st November 2026 | 67 | 21 | 3 | 110 | 283 |
| 9 | Germany | 3190 | 16th November 2023 – 27th October 2026 | 120 | 48 | 0 | 103 | 225 |
| 10 | Austria | 2659 | 16th November 2023 – 24th October 2026 | 76 | 26 | 0 | 105 | 226 |
| Date | Time | User | Type | Name | Attribute | ||
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| 31461 | 24th September 2026 | 16:05:21 UTC | remus | climber | Bart van Raaij | notes | |
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Bart is the author of the 7+8 and 5+6 guidebooks to fontainebleau as well as the owner of [bleau.info](https://bleau.info/), a website that categorises all of the climbing in Fontainebleau. A true Bleausard!
After
Bart is the author of the 7+8 and 5+6 guidebooks to fontainebleau as well as the owner of [bleau.info](https://bleau.info/), a website that categorises all of the climbing in Fontainebleau. A true Bleausard!
> [After publishing my first guidebook] they wrote about me on the internet "the only thing Bart does is go to our forest, steal information from bleau.info, add mistakes and ask money for it." I guess those guys didn't know that bleau.info was my website. [1]
### References
[1] [https://open.spotify.com/episode/7C0PzcrI3pspRdauot61tx](https://open.spotify.com/episode/7C0PzcrI3pspRdauot61tx)
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| 31462 | 24th September 2026 | 14:07:31 UTC | remus | climb | Le Carnage | notes_pretty | |
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<p>The first 7B in Fontainebleau. Climbed in 1977, key holds were manufactured by <a href="/climber/1599/jérôme-jean-charles" rel="noopener noreferrer">Jérôme Jean-Charles</a>, who believed that the possibilities for hard climbing on natural rock had been exhausted and the only way to progress would be to add holds to 'unclimbable' rock.</p>
<p>Topo Bleau summarises the paradox:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>But Cuvier is also the massif of all the wrong turns, given how much the rock has been altered. Nowhere else are there so many manufactured holds, so many holds patched with cement. In a way, that was the price of progress.</p>
<p>But let’s not throw our hammers at the heads of those who came before. In the spirit of the time, they weren’t violating any ethical principle, because it hadn’t yet been recognised that chipping actually limits the standard. In other words, it unconsciously avoided engaging with the rock itself. It took 17 years to go from 7a to 7b, and only 7 years from 7b to 8a. [1]</p>
</blockquote>
<p><a href="/climber/1392/bart-van-raaij" rel="noopener noreferrer">Bart van Raaij</a>:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>When I started climbing in the 80s I saw the people who could really climb, the bleausards, and they all started at that boulder. They did Carnage to test if they were fit because Carnage is a power boulder, they did <a href="/climb/979/l'abbé-résina" rel="noopener noreferrer">L'Abbé Résina</a> to see how the conditions are because it's a friction-dependent balance boulder...then they decide where to go. [3]</p>
</blockquote>
<p>In 2001 the problem was vandalised by a disgruntled local climber, who attempted to chip off the starting hold, making the problem harder. [2]</p>
<p>Despite its manufactured nature, the problem is one of the most popular in Fontainebleau and a milestone for any aspiring Bleausard. </p>
<h3>References</h3>
<p>[1] <a href="https://sites.google.com/site/topobleau/escalades-bleau/Foret-domaniale-de-Fontainebleau/Les-Cuviers?authuser=0" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://sites.google.com/site/topobleau/escalades-bleau/Foret-domaniale-de-Fontainebleau/Les-Cuviers?authuser=0</a></p>
<p>[2] <em>On The Edge</em> issue 110, page 10</p>
<p>[3] <a href="https://open.spotify.com/episode/7C0PzcrI3pspRdauot61tx" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://open.spotify.com/episode/7C0PzcrI3pspRdauot61tx</a></p>
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<p>The first 7B in Fontainebleau. Climbed in 1977, key holds were manufactured by <a href="/climber/1599/jérôme-jean-charles" rel="noopener noreferrer">Jérôme Jean-Charles</a>, who believed that the possibilities for hard climbing on natural rock had been exhausted and the only way to progress would be to add holds to 'unclimbable' rock.</p>
<p>Topo Bleau summarises the paradox:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>But Cuvier is also the massif of all the wrong turns, given how much the rock has been altered. Nowhere else are there so many manufactured holds, so many holds patched with cement. In a way, that was the price of progress.</p>
<p>But let’s not throw our hammers at the heads of those who came before. In the spirit of the time, they weren’t violating any ethical principle, because it hadn’t yet been recognised that chipping actually limits the standard. In other words, it unconsciously avoided engaging with the rock itself. It took 17 years to go from 7a to 7b, and only 7 years from 7b to 8a. [1]</p>
</blockquote>
<p>In 2001 the problem was vandalised by a disgruntled local climber, who attempted to chip off the starting hold, making the problem harder. [2] Despite its manufactured nature, the problem is one of the most popular in Fontainebleau and a milestone for any aspiring Bleausard.</p>
<p><a href="/climber/1392/bart-van-raaij" rel="noopener noreferrer">Bart van Raaij</a>:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>When I started climbing in the 80s I saw the people who could really climb, the bleausards, and they all started at that boulder. They did Carnage to test if they were fit because Carnage is a power boulder, they did <a href="/climb/979/l'abbé-résina" rel="noopener noreferrer">L'Abbé Résina</a> to see how the conditions are because it's a friction-dependent balance boulder...then they decide where to go. [3]</p>
</blockquote>
<h3>References</h3>
<p>[1] <a href="https://sites.google.com/site/topobleau/escalades-bleau/Foret-domaniale-de-Fontainebleau/Les-Cuviers?authuser=0" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://sites.google.com/site/topobleau/escalades-bleau/Foret-domaniale-de-Fontainebleau/Les-Cuviers?authuser=0</a></p>
<p>[2] <em>On The Edge</em> issue 110, page 10</p>
<p>[3] <a href="https://open.spotify.com/episode/7C0PzcrI3pspRdauot61tx" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://open.spotify.com/episode/7C0PzcrI3pspRdauot61tx</a></p>
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| 31463 | 24th September 2026 | 14:07:31 UTC | remus | climb | Le Carnage | notes | |
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The first 7B in Fontainebleau. Climbed in 1977, key holds were manufactured by [Jérôme Jean-Charles](/climber/1599/jérôme-jean-charles), who believed that the possibilities for hard climbing on natural rock had been exhausted and the only way to progress would be to add holds to 'unclimbable' rock.
Topo Bleau summarises the paradox:
>But Cuvier is also the massif of all the wrong turns, given how much the rock has been altered. Nowhere else are there so many manufactured holds, so many holds patched with cement. In a way, that was the price of progress.
> But let’s not throw our hammers at the heads of those who came before. In the spirit of the time, they weren’t violating any ethical principle, because it hadn’t yet been recognised that chipping actually limits the standard. In other words, it unconsciously avoided engaging with the rock itself. It took 17 years to go from 7a to 7b, and only 7 years from 7b to 8a. [1]
[Bart van Raaij](/climber/1392/bart-van-raaij):
> When I started climbing in the 80s I saw the people who could really climb, the bleausards, and they all started at that boulder. They did Carnage to test if they were fit because Carnage is a power boulder, they did [L'Abbé Résina](/climb/979/l'abbé-résina) to see how the conditions are because it's a friction-dependent balance boulder...then they decide where to go. [3]
In 2001 the problem was vandalised by a disgruntled local climber, who attempted to chip off the starting hold, making the problem harder. [2]
Despite its manufactured nature, the problem is one of the most popular in Fontainebleau and a milestone for any aspiring Bleausard.
### References
[1] [https://sites.google.com/site/topobleau/escalades-bleau/Foret-domaniale-de-Fontainebleau/Les-Cuviers?authuser=0](https://sites.google.com/site/topobleau/escalades-bleau/Foret-domaniale-de-Fontainebleau/Les-Cuviers?authuser=0)
[2] *On The Edge* issue 110, page 10
[3] [https://open.spotify.com/episode/7C0PzcrI3pspRdauot61tx](https://open.spotify.com/episode/7C0PzcrI3pspRdauot61tx)
After
The first 7B in Fontainebleau. Climbed in 1977, key holds were manufactured by [Jérôme Jean-Charles](/climber/1599/jérôme-jean-charles), who believed that the possibilities for hard climbing on natural rock had been exhausted and the only way to progress would be to add holds to 'unclimbable' rock.
Topo Bleau summarises the paradox:
>But Cuvier is also the massif of all the wrong turns, given how much the rock has been altered. Nowhere else are there so many manufactured holds, so many holds patched with cement. In a way, that was the price of progress.
> But let’s not throw our hammers at the heads of those who came before. In the spirit of the time, they weren’t violating any ethical principle, because it hadn’t yet been recognised that chipping actually limits the standard. In other words, it unconsciously avoided engaging with the rock itself. It took 17 years to go from 7a to 7b, and only 7 years from 7b to 8a. [1]
In 2001 the problem was vandalised by a disgruntled local climber, who attempted to chip off the starting hold, making the problem harder. [2] Despite its manufactured nature, the problem is one of the most popular in Fontainebleau and a milestone for any aspiring Bleausard.
[Bart van Raaij](/climber/1392/bart-van-raaij):
> When I started climbing in the 80s I saw the people who could really climb, the bleausards, and they all started at that boulder. They did Carnage to test if they were fit because Carnage is a power boulder, they did [L'Abbé Résina](/climb/979/l'abbé-résina) to see how the conditions are because it's a friction-dependent balance boulder...then they decide where to go. [3]
### References
[1] [https://sites.google.com/site/topobleau/escalades-bleau/Foret-domaniale-de-Fontainebleau/Les-Cuviers?authuser=0](https://sites.google.com/site/topobleau/escalades-bleau/Foret-domaniale-de-Fontainebleau/Les-Cuviers?authuser=0)
[2] *On The Edge* issue 110, page 10
[3] [https://open.spotify.com/episode/7C0PzcrI3pspRdauot61tx](https://open.spotify.com/episode/7C0PzcrI3pspRdauot61tx)
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| 31464 | 24th September 2026 | 14:06:39 UTC | remus | climb | Le Carnage | notes_pretty | |
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<p>The first 7B in Fontainebleau. Climbed in 1977, key holds were manufactured by <a href="/climber/1599/jérôme-jean-charles" rel="noopener noreferrer">Jérôme Jean-Charles</a>, who believed that the possibilities for hard climbing on natural rock had been exhausted and the only way to progress would be to add holds to 'unclimbable' rock.</p>
<p>Topo Bleau summarises the paradox:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>But Cuvier is also the massif of all the wrong turns, given how much the rock has been altered. Nowhere else are there so many manufactured holds, so many holds patched with cement. In a way, that was the price of progress.</p>
<p>But let’s not throw our hammers at the heads of those who came before. In the spirit of the time, they weren’t violating any ethical principle, because it hadn’t yet been recognised that chipping actually limits the standard. In other words, it unconsciously avoided engaging with the rock itself. It took 17 years to go from 7a to 7b, and only 7 years from 7b to 8a. [1]</p>
</blockquote>
<p>In 2001 the problem was vandalised by a disgruntled local climber, who attempted to chip off the starting hold, making the problem harder. (2)</p>
<p>Despite its manufactured nature, the problem is one of the most popular in Fontainebleau and a milestone for any aspiring Bleausard. </p>
<h3>References</h3>
<p>[1] <a href="https://sites.google.com/site/topobleau/escalades-bleau/Foret-domaniale-de-Fontainebleau/Les-Cuviers?authuser=0" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://sites.google.com/site/topobleau/escalades-bleau/Foret-domaniale-de-Fontainebleau/Les-Cuviers?authuser=0</a></p>
<p>[2] <em>On The Edge</em> issue 110, page 10</p>
After
<p>The first 7B in Fontainebleau. Climbed in 1977, key holds were manufactured by <a href="/climber/1599/jérôme-jean-charles" rel="noopener noreferrer">Jérôme Jean-Charles</a>, who believed that the possibilities for hard climbing on natural rock had been exhausted and the only way to progress would be to add holds to 'unclimbable' rock.</p>
<p>Topo Bleau summarises the paradox:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>But Cuvier is also the massif of all the wrong turns, given how much the rock has been altered. Nowhere else are there so many manufactured holds, so many holds patched with cement. In a way, that was the price of progress.</p>
<p>But let’s not throw our hammers at the heads of those who came before. In the spirit of the time, they weren’t violating any ethical principle, because it hadn’t yet been recognised that chipping actually limits the standard. In other words, it unconsciously avoided engaging with the rock itself. It took 17 years to go from 7a to 7b, and only 7 years from 7b to 8a. [1]</p>
</blockquote>
<p><a href="/climber/1392/bart-van-raaij" rel="noopener noreferrer">Bart van Raaij</a>:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>When I started climbing in the 80s I saw the people who could really climb, the bleausards, and they all started at that boulder. They did Carnage to test if they were fit because Carnage is a power boulder, they did <a href="/climb/979/l'abbé-résina" rel="noopener noreferrer">L'Abbé Résina</a> to see how the conditions are because it's a friction-dependent balance boulder...then they decide where to go. [3]</p>
</blockquote>
<p>In 2001 the problem was vandalised by a disgruntled local climber, who attempted to chip off the starting hold, making the problem harder. [2]</p>
<p>Despite its manufactured nature, the problem is one of the most popular in Fontainebleau and a milestone for any aspiring Bleausard. </p>
<h3>References</h3>
<p>[1] <a href="https://sites.google.com/site/topobleau/escalades-bleau/Foret-domaniale-de-Fontainebleau/Les-Cuviers?authuser=0" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://sites.google.com/site/topobleau/escalades-bleau/Foret-domaniale-de-Fontainebleau/Les-Cuviers?authuser=0</a></p>
<p>[2] <em>On The Edge</em> issue 110, page 10</p>
<p>[3] <a href="https://open.spotify.com/episode/7C0PzcrI3pspRdauot61tx" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://open.spotify.com/episode/7C0PzcrI3pspRdauot61tx</a></p>
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| 31465 | 24th September 2026 | 14:06:39 UTC | remus | climb | Le Carnage | notes | |
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Before
The first 7B in Fontainebleau. Climbed in 1977, key holds were manufactured by [Jérôme Jean-Charles](/climber/1599/jérôme-jean-charles), who believed that the possibilities for hard climbing on natural rock had been exhausted and the only way to progress would be to add holds to 'unclimbable' rock.
Topo Bleau summarises the paradox:
>But Cuvier is also the massif of all the wrong turns, given how much the rock has been altered. Nowhere else are there so many manufactured holds, so many holds patched with cement. In a way, that was the price of progress.
> But let’s not throw our hammers at the heads of those who came before. In the spirit of the time, they weren’t violating any ethical principle, because it hadn’t yet been recognised that chipping actually limits the standard. In other words, it unconsciously avoided engaging with the rock itself. It took 17 years to go from 7a to 7b, and only 7 years from 7b to 8a. [1]
In 2001 the problem was vandalised by a disgruntled local climber, who attempted to chip off the starting hold, making the problem harder. (2)
Despite its manufactured nature, the problem is one of the most popular in Fontainebleau and a milestone for any aspiring Bleausard.
### References
[1] [https://sites.google.com/site/topobleau/escalades-bleau/Foret-domaniale-de-Fontainebleau/Les-Cuviers?authuser=0](https://sites.google.com/site/topobleau/escalades-bleau/Foret-domaniale-de-Fontainebleau/Les-Cuviers?authuser=0)
[2] *On The Edge* issue 110, page 10
After
The first 7B in Fontainebleau. Climbed in 1977, key holds were manufactured by [Jérôme Jean-Charles](/climber/1599/jérôme-jean-charles), who believed that the possibilities for hard climbing on natural rock had been exhausted and the only way to progress would be to add holds to 'unclimbable' rock.
Topo Bleau summarises the paradox:
>But Cuvier is also the massif of all the wrong turns, given how much the rock has been altered. Nowhere else are there so many manufactured holds, so many holds patched with cement. In a way, that was the price of progress.
> But let’s not throw our hammers at the heads of those who came before. In the spirit of the time, they weren’t violating any ethical principle, because it hadn’t yet been recognised that chipping actually limits the standard. In other words, it unconsciously avoided engaging with the rock itself. It took 17 years to go from 7a to 7b, and only 7 years from 7b to 8a. [1]
[Bart van Raaij](/climber/1392/bart-van-raaij):
> When I started climbing in the 80s I saw the people who could really climb, the bleausards, and they all started at that boulder. They did Carnage to test if they were fit because Carnage is a power boulder, they did [L'Abbé Résina](/climb/979/l'abbé-résina) to see how the conditions are because it's a friction-dependent balance boulder...then they decide where to go. [3]
In 2001 the problem was vandalised by a disgruntled local climber, who attempted to chip off the starting hold, making the problem harder. [2]
Despite its manufactured nature, the problem is one of the most popular in Fontainebleau and a milestone for any aspiring Bleausard.
### References
[1] [https://sites.google.com/site/topobleau/escalades-bleau/Foret-domaniale-de-Fontainebleau/Les-Cuviers?authuser=0](https://sites.google.com/site/topobleau/escalades-bleau/Foret-domaniale-de-Fontainebleau/Les-Cuviers?authuser=0)
[2] *On The Edge* issue 110, page 10
[3] [https://open.spotify.com/episode/7C0PzcrI3pspRdauot61tx](https://open.spotify.com/episode/7C0PzcrI3pspRdauot61tx)
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| 31466 | 24th September 2026 | 09:31:48 UTC | remus | crag | La Cerdanya | notes_pretty | |
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<p>[1] <a href="https://fanatic-climbing.com/bellver-joyau-de-cerdagne-bellver-the-jewel-of-cerdanya/" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://fanatic-climbing.com/bellver-joyau-de-cerdagne-bellver-the-jewel-of-cerdanya/</a></p>
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| 31467 | 24th September 2026 | 09:31:48 UTC | remus | crag | La Cerdanya | notes | |
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### References
[1] [https://fanatic-climbing.com/bellver-joyau-de-cerdagne-bellver-the-jewel-of-cerdanya/](https://fanatic-climbing.com/bellver-joyau-de-cerdagne-bellver-the-jewel-of-cerdanya/)
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| 31468 | 24th September 2026 | 09:31:40 UTC | remus | crag | La Cerdanya | Website | |
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| 31469 | 24th September 2026 | 09:31:34 UTC | remus | crag | La Cerdanya | location_breadcrumb | |
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| 31470 | 24th September 2026 | 09:31:34 UTC | remus | crag | La Cerdanya | rock_type_id | |
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| 31471 | 24th September 2026 | 09:31:34 UTC | remus | crag | La Cerdanya | longitude | |
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| 31472 | 24th September 2026 | 09:31:34 UTC | remus | crag | La Cerdanya | latitude | |
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| 31473 | 24th September 2026 | 09:31:34 UTC | remus | crag | La Cerdanya | crag_name | |
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| 31474 | 24th September 2026 | 08:26:37 UTC | remus | media | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZsiKZBNZ_o | missing_right_to_reproduce | |
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| 31475 | 24th September 2026 | 08:26:37 UTC | remus | media | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZsiKZBNZ_o | url | |
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| 31476 | 24th September 2026 | 08:26:37 UTC | remus | ascent | Pepa Šindel's ascent of Big Twin | notes_pretty | |
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<h3>References</h3>
<p>[1] <a href="https://www.instagram.com/reel/Db0_oqgM0Cy/" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://www.instagram.com/reel/Db0_oqgM0Cy/</a></p>
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<h3>References</h3>
<p>[1] <a href="https://www.instagram.com/reel/Db0_oqgM0Cy/" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://www.instagram.com/reel/Db0_oqgM0Cy/</a></p>
<p>[2] <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZsiKZBNZ_o" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZsiKZBNZ_o</a></p>
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| 31477 | 24th September 2026 | 08:26:37 UTC | remus | ascent | Pepa Šindel's ascent of Big Twin | notes | |
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### References
[1] [https://www.instagram.com/reel/Db0_oqgM0Cy/](https://www.instagram.com/reel/Db0_oqgM0Cy/)
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### References
[1] [https://www.instagram.com/reel/Db0_oqgM0Cy/](https://www.instagram.com/reel/Db0_oqgM0Cy/)
[2] [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZsiKZBNZ_o](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZsiKZBNZ_o)
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| 31478 | 24th September 2026 | 08:24:50 UTC | remus | climber | Bart van Raaij | Features In (Youtube Vid) | |
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| 31479 | 24th September 2026 | 08:24:04 UTC | remus | library item | He Was Dean Potter’s “Secret Weapon” — But This Was Never a Death Wish | Timmy O’Neill, 56 | Guest | |
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| 31480 | 24th September 2026 | 08:24:04 UTC | remus | library item | Coach Joy Black: Groundbreaking Study on Climbing While Pregnant, Busy Climber Tips, and My Pelvic Floor | Guest | |
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