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Alex Barrows makes the FA of The Last Nacho (9a)
"Belly Full of Nachos (long 8B/+) to an ok rest at its finishing jugs, then head left along the lip via 2 bolts (~6C?) to good knees at the start of Mecca. Up Mecca (8b+), then quest exhaustingly onwards to finish up Crucifixion to the top of the crag (~8a/+ from Mecca chains?). ~45m of climbing taking in quite a few different styles, and surely the longest bit of climbing you can get out of the tor without getting very traversey! Maths says that the top part "shouldn't" add to the difficulty, but it doesn't feel like that - the extra stress, exhaustion, and getting baked by the sun made it a battle from rest to rest, and definitely the most traumatic and, of course, most enjoyable part of the route. I guess it must be the hardest piece of climbing I've done to date, though unfortunately it's not the most classic 😂. (Aka "The Last Supper, brought to you by Taco Bell's halal range")."
Jernej Kruder sends Martin Krpan (9a) sans knee pads
Jernej Kruder, who won the Boulder World Cup in 2018, has done Martin Krpan (9a) in Mišja Peč. “I would like to expose something here: I spent many tries on t…
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Six years after partnering with 8a.nu, we’re excited to announce the unification of the 8a.nu website and the Vertical-Life app into a single platform: Vertical…
Will Bosi repeats Return of the Sleepwalker (9A)
William Bosi has made the second ascent of Daniel Woods’ Return of the Sleepwalker (9A) in Black Velvet Canyon, after projecting it for 12 sessions. This was th…
Wild South (8C) FA by Will Bosi
William Bosi has done the FA of Wild South (8C) at Raven Tor. “The Low start to Wild West starting hanging from the jug in the break under the roof. Adds three moves into the start of wild west and then finishing a couple moves higher on the two flat edges above the belgue. video on my youtube. Prob…
Hubble 9a (8c+) by Toby Roberts (16)
Toby Roberts, who two weeks ago did the 35m long Batman 9a/+, reports on Insta that he has done Ben Moon's classic Hubble from 1990 at Raven Tor. The Ben Moon r…
Mutation 9a (+) by William Bosi
William Bosi has done Steve McClure's Mutation in Raven Tor and suggest an upgrade to 9a+. "Wow! So happy to get the first repeat, Steve sent this route two mon…
Wild South (8C) FA by Will Bosi
William Bosi has done the FA of Wild South (8C) at Raven Tor. “The Low start to Wild West starting hanging from the jug in the break under the roof. Adds three moves into the start of wild west and then finishing a couple moves higher on the two flat edges above the belgue. video on my youtube. Prob…
Hubble 9a (8c+) by Toby Roberts (16)
Toby Roberts, who two weeks ago did the 35m long Batman 9a/+, reports on Insta that he has done Ben Moon's classic Hubble from 1990 at Raven Tor. The Ben Moon r…
Mutation 9a (+) by William Bosi
William Bosi has done Steve McClure's Mutation in Raven Tor and suggest an upgrade to 9a+. "Wow! So happy to get the first repeat, Steve sent this route two mon…
Katie Lamb makes history
Katie Lamb has become the first woman to climb 8C+ by completing Box Therapy (8C) in RMNP. Daniel Woods made the FA back in 2018, and only Drew Ruana and Sean B…
Schubert sends Project Big during his 6th Live attempt
"It was dramatic to the very end." On the 8a finish of Project Big in Flatanger, Jakob Schubert explains that a horn broke and he was close to falling. The last three minutes of the video show just how much this climb means to him."This horn could have ended my career... This was the biggest mental …
Will Bosi repeats Return of the Sleepwalker (9A)
William Bosi has made the second ascent of Daniel Woods’ Return of the Sleepwalker (9A) in Black Velvet Canyon, after projecting it for 12 sessions. This was th…