Climbing Beyond
by Emma Wood

I spent some time this morning watching a video of Nalle Hukkataival, a Finnish climber, establishing the hardest boulder problem in the world. For the uninitiated, bouldering simply means climbing at low level over crash pads without using any ropes. They are called 'problems' because you have to work out how to climb them, and in this way are similar to mathematical problems and brain teasers. For Nalle, this particular problem was challenging because it had never been done