20 September 2014

8B+ in just two days by Alex Puccio

Alex Puccio who was second in the World Championships last month is taking female bouldering into a new standard by doing The Wheel of Chaos 8B+ in RMNP on her second day. "Mini epic today, fell on the last move first go today and then took a while to get back there." The 25 moves high class power-endurance test piece sits at 3 200 m and the hike upwards is 1+ hour. It was set up by Daniel Woods last year, "The climbing style is crazy with both physical and technical movement." and it has a 8C variation... Alex Puccio is moving upwards to #24 in the male ranking game. Joel Zerr is also in the celibration picture and as he is a professional photographer, hopefully he got some good images.
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