31 March 2017
8C by Ryuichi Murai
Ryuichi Murai has made the first repeat of Dai Koyamada's Epitaph 8C in Hourai. During the last 13 months, the 22 year old Japanese has done six 8C boulders and he is #2 in the ranking game.
"Finally I managed to do my longstanding project "Epitaph V15"!! I spent 8 days to send it. At first I couldn't do at all. But I was highly motivated because the line was so beautiful. I was really happy, but I also wanted to face this beautiful line a little longer."
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