It’s late fall/early winter, but the tick list of great climbs/bouldering routes toppled just keeps coming. Gregor Peirce, two-time national bouldering champion who’s only 19, just repeated his hardest route yet: The Swarm (V13/14) in the Buttermilks, California. In Arkansas, Finnish climber Nalle Hukkataival and Ian Dory repeated Lost in the Hood (V14) and Hukkataival also just repeated Esperanza, in Hueco Tanks, another V14. But probably the most aesthetic of this fall’s bouldering caught on video is Slovenia’s Katja Vidmar on Petting with an Alligator (V12) in Maltatal, Austria. Check the Vimeo, here, and wonder aloud how the hell she pulls some of the moves she does — like a few crimpers that’ll make your hands hurt just witnessing. Nice!

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