3 August 2023
Gabriel Kern, 17, does Inshallah (8c+)
Gabriel Kern, who last month won the Swedish Lead Championship, has done Inshallah (8c+) in Kalymnos, Insta video.
โInshallah, in my opinion the absolute king line! Featuring a middle-finger-undercling-mono-lockoff, sketchy heel-hooks, mega cut-loosing, and a brutal ending! The route is around 15 meters of pure hard bouldering with no rests. As of now it has five ascents on 8a.nu but, the more accurate number is probably around 10-15.
If anyone is visiting Kalymnos I would highly recommend going to north cape and trying it! There are some draws on it already that you can use if you just want to feel the holds!
My first few tries on the route was in November 2022 but that was cut short since there came a swarm of hornets making the route unclimbable. I came back in Easter 2023 hungry, made progress, but still got shut down. Fast forward to summer 2023, everything was greasy and humid, but that didn't stop my projecting, I perfected every sequence and after a falling on the last hold a few tries in a row I managed to send it. It was either send it or take down the draws.โ
โInshallah, in my opinion the absolute king line! Featuring a middle-finger-undercling-mono-lockoff, sketchy heel-hooks, mega cut-loosing, and a brutal ending! The route is around 15 meters of pure hard bouldering with no rests. As of now it has five ascents on 8a.nu but, the more accurate number is probably around 10-15.
If anyone is visiting Kalymnos I would highly recommend going to north cape and trying it! There are some draws on it already that you can use if you just want to feel the holds!
My first few tries on the route was in November 2022 but that was cut short since there came a swarm of hornets making the route unclimbable. I came back in Easter 2023 hungry, made progress, but still got shut down. Fast forward to summer 2023, everything was greasy and humid, but that didn't stop my projecting, I perfected every sequence and after a falling on the last hold a few tries in a row I managed to send it. It was either send it or take down the draws.โ
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