Steve Moon atop the "Pole Dancer" pillar at the end of Cape Raoul, Tasman Peninsula, Tasmania. It takes many hours of hiking, abseiling, climbing and scrambling for experienced climbers just to reach the start of this climb -- which a guidebook decribes as "one of the best, and certainly the most memorable routes of its difficulty in the country". Picture: Simon Carter / Onsight Photography
Mount Brown on the Tasman Peninsula, in Tasmania, is home to some of Australia's best long sea-cliff climbs. Here Garry Phillips leads pitch two of "Talk is Cheap", a 210-metre grade 24 route which he established in 2008. Picture: Simon Carter / Onsight Photography
Monique Forestier climbs through a six-meter roof climb called "Superstyling", which overlooks Jervis Bay at Point Perpendicular, NSW, Australia. Picture: Simon Carter / Onsight Photography
Monique Forestier attempting a climb called "Nine Deep, One Shallow", near Yangshuo, in China. Yangshou is a relatively new area with so far having only two hundred or so established routes. Picture: Simon Carter / Onsight Photography
The Darran Mountains on New Zealand's South Island are recognised as a premier rock climbing area. Here Matt Evrard is pulling through the steep granite on "Contact Neurosis" at Chasm Crag. Picture: Simon Carter / Onsight Photography
Top Australian rock climber Monique Forestier deep-water soloing (climbing without ropes or gear; just using the ocean as a safety net) at Turtle Cave, Ha Long Bay, Vietnam. Picture: Simon Carter / Onsight Photography
Lee Cujes making the first ascent of "License to Climb Harder", on The Face, one of 2153 islands in Ha Long Bay, Vietnam. Picture: Simon Carter / Onsight Photography
Top French rock climber Chloe Minoret sees out the day with a last minute attempt on a route called "Le Denti", on a limestone cliff known as Goudes, overlooking the Mediterranean in Les Calanques, France. Picture: Simon Carter / Onsight Photography
Sunrise finds Nadine Rousselot and Mathieu Geoffray an hour's hike in and two pitches up "Arte de Marseille". It is a five pitch classic on La Grande Candelle, Les Calanques, overlooking the Mediterranean in France. Picture: Simon Carter / Onsight Photography
Swiss climber Fred Moix pulling through the steeply overhang rock on "Tafo Masina". The climb is on an idyllic island (one of ten islands in the Nosy Hara Archipelago), off the northern tip of Madagascar. Picture: Simon Carter / Onsight Photography
The forests of Kentucky USA are home to one of the world's great sport climbing areas: the Red River Gorge. Here Bentley Brackett climbs Hakuna Matata, a route typical of the high quality sandstone face climbing in the area. Picture: Simon Carter / Onsight Photography
Toni Lamprecht climbing "Manara-Potsiny", a 600 meter new route that he and fellow Germans Felix Frieder and Benno Wagner established in 2007. The route is on one of the massive granite domes of the Tsaranoro Massif, in the southern highlands of Madagascar. Photographer Simon Carter climbed fixed ropes 300-metres up the cliff to catch this image that was taken soon after dawn. Picture: Simon Carter / Onsight Photography
The Greek island of Kalymnos has become one of the world's most popular climbing destinations in recent years. Here Evan Stevens climbs 'The Siege of Thermopylae', with Telendos Island in the background. Picture: Simon Carter / Onsight Photography