30 April 2025
Katie Lamb does The Dark Side (8C+)
Katie Lamb reports on Instagram that she has repeated Carlo Traversiโs The Dark Side (8C+) in Camp 4. (c) Eric Bissell
โItโs easy to fall into the trap of treating friction on this boulder like passive resistance - a force that each scaler is at the whim of. But I learned to reshape this narrative: friction is something to sit with, to actively attend to, and to ask for help in understanding.โ
In the past two years, the 27-year-old has previously sent three 8C and five 8B+ boulders, firmly establishing herself as the world's leading female boulderer.
โItโs easy to fall into the trap of treating friction on this boulder like passive resistance - a force that each scaler is at the whim of. But I learned to reshape this narrative: friction is something to sit with, to actively attend to, and to ask for help in understanding.โ
In the past two years, the 27-year-old has previously sent three 8C and five 8B+ boulders, firmly establishing herself as the world's leading female boulderer.
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