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• 80 year old summits Mount Everest

  BBC reports that Yuichiro Miura (80) stood on the top of Mount Everest yesterday, making him the oldest guy ever. Miura had heart surgery four times and stood on the top twice before. Next week, the previous record holder, Min Bahadur Shercan (81) will make an attempt to get the record back.

• Hojer & Wurm take German double

  Jan Hojer (6) GER - Juliane Wurm (3) GER Dima Sharafutdinov (5) RUS - Anna Stöhr (1) AUT Kilian Fischhuber (3) AUT - Akiyo Noguchi (6) JPN The fifth Boulder World Cup in Innsbruck was a great show on nice problems. Jan started first as he was sixth in the semifinal and secured the gold even if five climbers remained to try the last boulder. The same thing happened for the result of Dima and Juliane. It can be noted that during 2013, 40 % of the winners have actually started first in the final as his/her semi final results were the worst of all finalist. This relatively good results for the last ranked guys coming into the final, we have seen since 2007 and especially in the four last world championships.