The Ouray Ice Festival is the best ice competition in the North America and one of the premier ice climbing events in the world.

In 2005 it was 10th Ouray Ice Festival. The winners were Ines Papert (Germany) and Will Gadd (Canada).

During the Roctrip Bishop in 2002, Tony Lamiche sent the first Sit Down Start of Mandala (V13), in front of 200 people.

The Mandala (V12) is a mystical problem linked by Chris Sharma. This incredible new line, from the ground, was rated V13 by Tony Lamiche, after only few days of tries.

The Mandala (V12) is a mystical problem linked by Chris Sharma in 1999.

On March 13, 2005, Chris Sharma did the first ascent of Witness the Fitness, an incredible line in the Ozark Mountains of Arkansas that he's calling the hardest boulder problem he's done. Witness the Fitness is hardest than Esperanza V14.

First Polish ascent of the route Freerider (5.12d, 1200m, 35 pitches) on the El Capitan, Yosemite. The Brothers, Adam i Paweł Pustelnik, spend 4 days on the wall.

Matt Segal completed a long project by redpointing Iron Monkey 5.14-, an old aid route in the Eldorado Canyon (Colorado) overhanging Kloof Alcove, listed in the guidebook as Lycra-Clad Donkeys.

Segal placed gear when he sent the route, which he reports to be 5.14 with a vicious boulder-problem crux — a good candidate for the hardest climb in the canyon.

June, 2006, Squamish, B.C. Patagonia climbing ambassador Sonnie Trotter climbed the first free ascent of Cobra Crack (5.14).

Sonnie worked the overhanging, thin-finger crack 30–40 times over the past few years, often rope-soloing the route to dial the moves, before completing it all-free. Sonnie said, “It's very rare to find a climb that is both overhanging, and so aesthetic. The fingers fit inside, but barely – if the crack was any more shallow, it would be just another impossible wall, if the crack was much steeper, it may be impossible – so I consider that route a gift for climbers. I've spent the better half of 10 years looking for a climb like that. It's perfect.”