844 routes 8a and harder by Cathy Wagner (56)
Wednesday, 11 May
"A must-do! 8b in the guidebook, which makes sense if you climb this long traverse without any knee-pads! I've used them a lot right from the beginning and again before the final cruxy boulder section, for which I had to readjust the beta after falling twice. The thing is you have to recover after a 20-move section into a good knee-bar rest before that boulder. Thanks Pires for sharing your beta with me 😊. I reckon it's (a soft?) 8a+ with pads."
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Cathy Wagner has done 834 routes 8a and harder which is probably most of all female out there. Only in 2021, the 56-year-old did 37 8a's and 6 8a+. Actually her best years, in terms of sending most hard routes have been since she turned 49. Cathy started climbing in 1986 and in 1994, at age 29, she …
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23 routes 8a and harder in 2013 by Cathy Wagner (48)
Cathy Wagner has during the last two weeks done three 8a's and Psycho killer 8a+ in Falkenstein. It total, the 48 year old has done 23 routes 8a and harder which means that she is going for her best season since 2003.
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8a+ and 8a again for Cathy Wagner (48)
Cathy Wagner who did her first 8a in 1994 and has in total done over 400 up to 8b, has done La queue du diable 8a+ in Gorges du Loup. This means that the 48 year old has done 32 routes 8a and harder this year, her best performance since 2004. This is truly inspirational showing that climbing is uniq…
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In the Eder Lomba video of Rainman 9b, we can see that he stays in a kneebar from 3:50 - 7:10, and short parts of it, "no hands rest". Steve McClure did the FA …