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Furia de Jabali 9a+ by Adam Ondra
Neighbouring routes La Capella and Kind Capella have also previously been downgraded and here is an old article discussing advanced grading theory, suggesting that Furia de Jabali is a soft 9a+ just like Adam says.
Ondra has also onsighted two 8a+' and giving it a personal 8b+ grade and in fact, he placed the draws and did it at the end of a climbing day. Adam has now done well over 100 onsights 8c and harder but in his scorecard, he has "only" 89 listed. The runner up in the world is Piotr Schab with eleven.
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…
Buster Martin does Furia de Jabali (9a+)
Buster Martin has repeated Will Bosi's Furia de Jabali (9a+) in Siurana. ”Six sessions. Final piece of a life come back. Could barely pull on last year but desp…
Furia de Jabali 9a+ (b) by Michal Mikušínec
Michal Mikušínec has repeated Will Bosi’s Furia de Jabali 9a+ (b) in Siurana. (c) Tomáš Buček "Furia is a super intense crimpy route, 12 really hard moves. It …
La pequena Mowgli 8c by Sol Sa
Sol Sa signs up to 8a by logging in Siurana. "It’s really big moves for me…, it’s like a boulder that was fun, fun."The Korean has been a very active international competition climber since 2009. In 2018, she got the Combined silver World Championship. In 2020, she did This year, she participated i…
Buster Martin does Furia de Jabali (9a+)
Buster Martin has repeated Will Bosi's Furia de Jabali (9a+) in Siurana. ”Six sessions. Final piece of a life come back. Could barely pull on last year but desp…
Furia de Jabali 9a+ (b) by Michal Mikušínec
Michal Mikušínec has repeated Will Bosi’s Furia de Jabali 9a+ (b) in Siurana. (c) Tomáš Buček "Furia is a super intense crimpy route, 12 really hard moves. It …
La pequena Mowgli 8c by Sol Sa
Sol Sa signs up to 8a by logging in Siurana. "It’s really big moves for me…, it’s like a boulder that was fun, fun."The Korean has been a very active international competition climber since 2009. In 2018, she got the Combined silver World Championship. In 2020, she did This year, she participated i…
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…