Jana Svecova completes Claim Perfection (8A+) and Wild Thing (8A)

Jana Svecova has sent Claim Perfection (8A+) and Wild Thing (8A) in Saalachtal - St. Martin bei Lofer. The 26-year-old has over the last 12 months done 14 boulders 8A to 8B+ and she is #2 in the female ranking game.

Can you tell us more about those ascents?
We planned to spend the whole of October in Switzerland in Chironico which we half succeeded. The first half of October we were actually in Switzerland trying out the projects we had on our wish list. I had tried Shadowfax (8B) and supertussi (8B) in Brione. In both boulders, I would have needed one or two more climbing days to finish them, but unfortunately, everything went against me. The conditions were bad as the temperatures didn't drop below 20 degrees and when they did it was 15 degrees at most. I also struggled with headaches and stomach pains for the first two weeks of the trip and was somehow unable to acclimatise. Combined with all this, it was really hard to climb anything.

Later on, the rain drove us out of Switzerland and we had to cross over to Austria, where we climbed in the Lofer and had some success. I managed to climb the 8A+ and 8A and Martin, who had probably the best climbing day of his life, climbed 8B and then 8A+ on a flash go. This was the end of our month-long trip, because even from Austria the rain pushed us back home.
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