1 November 2016

Es Pontas 9? by Jernej Kruder

Jernej Kruder has done the first repeat of Chris Sharma's Es Pontas in Mallorca. We have been promised the full story tomorrow once he wakes up after the big celebration party. Already three weeks ago he started to report about his Es Pontas challenge on Instagram and during the process he also onsighted The Weather Man 8a+ and a couple of 8a DWS. In 2014, the Slovenian was #2 in the Bouldering World Championship and together with 8C respectively 9a+ and also some impressing MPs, he was one of the best multi discipline guys out there already before his DWS success. Chris never graded it but agreed that it might be a 9b. (c) Kerstin Helbach
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