In April 2022 Shawn Raboutou made the first ascent of Alphane. Located at Chironico in Switzerland, this is currently only the third boulder problem in the world to be graded 9A. Film by Ben Neilson.

Austrian climber Jakob Schubert has repeated Alphane, the 9A boulder problem at Chironico in Switzerland. Success caps a stellar year for Schubert who in September made the first ascent of BIG (9c) at ...

Rumors have been circulating for months that Shawn Raboutou has made not one but two V17 first ascents. Last Friday, he finally posted about making the first ascent of Alphane, in Chironico, ...

*Burden of Dreams by Nalle Hukkataival, The Return of the Sleepwalker by Daniel Woods, and Megatron by Shawn Raboutou, though Shawn has not publicly confirmed having sent this last problem. **Both ...

Rumors have been circulating for months that American climber Shawn Raboutou has completed two eye-popping boulder projects. Raboutou, 24, recently posted about making the first ascent of Alphane (V17 ...

Will Bosi, 23, from Edinburgh, has claimed the third ascent of Alphane in Ticino, Switzerland. Repeated just a few weeks ago by Aidan Roberts, the boulder just might be the sixth in the world to carry ...

But who is Aidan Roberts? Aidan Roberts, now 24, is one of the strongest climbers the UK has ever produced. He grew up in Northern England’s Lake District and began his career as a comp climber, ...