11 March 2026

Piccolruaz and Schubert send Emotional landscapes (8C)

Michael Piccolruaz and Jakob Schubert have done Emotional landscapes - sit start (8C) in Maltatal. It was set up in 2002 by Klem Leskot as an 8B+, but pretty much all repeaters have called it 8C, and even 8C+ has been suggested. This makes it the second 8C in the world after Monkey Wedding (8C), put up 10 weeks earlier by Fred Nicole, also originally 8B+. It should be noted that a couple months earlier, Markus Bock made the FA of Gossip, which later was upgraded by him to 8C, but it has had only one repeat before some holds were destroyed.

Piccolruaz: โ€Ok this comes as a bit of a surprise. I joined Jakob to come and support him on 'emotional' thinking of probably trying something else. But then I warmed up, played around on the lower moves, flashed the stand start (to the lip only, it was soaking wet) and so I thought well, maybe I should try to actually climb this boulder. The first day I got kind a close making it through the lower part with the central feet, locking off slowly to the first hold, but I would end up having to bail due to fatigue and the increased humidity later on in the day.

The second day we came back and Jakob quickly figured out a way to make the heel toe jam beta work, and we could soon consistently climb into the stand. Some dry fires later, first Jakob got it done well in control, and after almost loosing faith that I could do it too, I pulled out a good beast mode go and managed to complete the team ascent! Mad respect to Klem for climbing this aaaalll those years ago. So surreal and sooo ahead of its time! Crazy!โ€
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