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Maria Davies Sandbu (20) has had an extraordinary progress since 2009 when she did 7A and was among the last in the three Euro Youth Cups. Two weeks ago she did her first 8c, Fish Eye in Oliana and she is #2 in the Combined ranking game.
In the interview she tries to explain how progress is possible, living midways up in the cold, wet and dark Trondheim without any proper climbing gym. (c) Henning Wang
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