Andrew Nimmer flashes two more 8B’s

Andrew Nimmer, who has 8B+ as his PB and who flashed an 8B last week in Rocklands, has flashed The guest list (8B) and Amandla (8B+). The latter he logged as an 8B.

Can you tell us more about the flashes?
After flashing Sky I had some friends recommend I join them on The Guest List and try to flash it [pictured). This climb suited me very well and felt like climbing at the red river gorge which I grew up climbing at.

For Amandla, I saw Nicolai’s video of him flashing it and I thought I would try to flash with a similar beta. This climb looked similar to The Swarm (classic 8B/+ in Bishop) in difficulty and style. I gave an alright flash attempt on The Swarm a few years back. I felt like I’m climbing stronger now and that Amandla would suit me better than The Swarm because it’s on sandstone with better feet. I climb well on sandstone and find that I can make better use out of the more positive feet and gritty texture compared with other types of rock.

Not seeing anyone climb on it in person or being able to feel out all they holds from the ground made the flash more spicy and memorable. Grabbing the final crimp and sticking the lip felt great as these holds felt like any climbers dream. The mantle felt like icing on the cake.

Are you going into projecting mode now or are the more flashes coming up?
I want to give El Corazon a good flash go. I also want to climb the other mega classic 8B’s The Vice and Mooiste Meise. Those look a little harder to flash but I’ll still try. I would like to try Book Club and Monkey Wedding as well.

How do you warm up before a hard flash?
Normal warm up, maybe pull on the tension block lightly and then hang around on jugs. Today after doing that I did 3 laps on a v5 and then flashed a v10 [7C+] and v11 [8A] and then felt warm enough. Then I rested an hour and then went for Amandla.

Another note is that I’ve been stopping climbing most days before becoming exhausted so while I’m climbing less, I’m more fresh every day and can send more.