Hard Core Japaneses sign up: Yamauchi & Murai

Makoto Yamauchi and Ryuichi Murai, two of the most promising Japanese boulderers, have signed up. Both 21-year-old have done Dai Koyamada's Orochi 8C in Konoto out of which Makoto did it in second go. Ryuichi is #16 and Makoto, on the picture, #22 in the ranking game and they are a part of the new generation of highly motivated and super strong Japanese climbers. It might be that within three years there will be 20 Japaneses doing 8C's.