Jonathan Siegrist ticks Pneuma (9a)

Jonathan Siegrist, with 79 routes 9a to 9b under his belt, has repeated BJ Tilden’s Pneuma (9a) in The Temple. The 38-year-old is #4 in the Vertical-Life ranking game having done eight routes 9a to 9b during the last year. "Absolutely brilliant route! Strength enduro nightmare on bad holds.. Loved every minute of it." (c) Nate Liles

Can you tell us more about the ascent?
The crux comes without any rest before, and you have 6 really hard moves on bad holds, still no rest whatsoever you go directly into another 6 move boulder problem ending with a really fun big move to a jug. Still, a small exit crux guards the chains. I started trying right after climbing its neighbour - The Ritual. I had been thinking of coming to try Pneuma for years and my good friend BJ Tilden opened the route and said it was amazing - he was right! Last year he also did The Ritual so finally with two hard ones I knew it was time to make the trip up North.