9 August 2013

8a (+) by Martina Cufar Potard (36) up at 3 800 m

Martina Cufar Potard has done the third ascent of Arête des Cosmiques 8a (+) up at 3 800m on Aiguille du midi, Mont Blanc. The FA was done by her husband Nicolas Potard and Victor Estrangin. Martina, who was the Lead World Champion in 2001, says it was easier compared to in Pourquoi 8b in Foron which she did a couple of days later and thinks it is 8a+. "The access is not complicated, you go up with the cablecar of Aiguille du midi, climb down the terrasse and after 50m of walking on the arrete you do a 40m rappel to come in the base of the gendarme. To come back up, you gave to do the last part of the famous Arrete des Cosmiques (IV). The Arrete cosmiques is about 25m long and very intense! Not much holds a lot of "compression"!" There are two schools of grading up on altitude out of which guys like Hirayama and Woods think the grade should include the overall feeling meanwhile others like Alex Huber thinks the grade Always should be based on the sea level feeling. What do you think?
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