25 May 2017

Ethan Pringle does 2nd ascent of Sharma's Jumbo Love

Rvproj presents the full story including an uncut video form Ethan Pringle's send of Jumbo Love 9b. Ethan had been projecting it for eight years when he did Sharma's 80 meter test piece in 2015. Here is part of what Ethan wrote on Facebook after his send, "WOW!!! Yesterday I climbed my ultimate lifetime dream route, the most bad-ass sport climb I've ever laid eyes on, Chris Sharma's โ€ช#โ€ŽJumboLoveโ€ฌ! WOW. I can't believe it's over. I say that half in a literal sense because when I sent it, it was almost like an out of body experience that I can barely remember happening. My story on Jumbo Love spanned over eight years and involved every emotion I can think of: awe, excitement, love, admiration, longing, apathy, fear, frustration, anger, resignation, acceptance, and eventually, MOTHERFUCKEN GLORY!!!" In 2000, Ethan took the silver in the Youth World Championship and his best result out of seven Lead and Boulder WC's is #16. On rock he has done a handful of 9a's and Biographie 9a+ in 2007, when he was the #1 in the 8a Combined ranking game thanks to three 8B+ boulders he also climbed that year.
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