9 June 2025

Sam Weir ticks Child of Hell (8C) in a session

Sam Weir, with three 8C+โ€™ under his belt, has repeated Shawn Raboutouโ€™s Child of Hell (8C) in Gottardo. โ€King lines only this summer ๐Ÿ˜Ž 3rd go. First 8C in a session. Not sure on the grade. Really basic shoulder stability and tension bloc.โ€

From his Insta video, you can see it rains a lot during the send. What about the friction and the top out?
It had been raining about twenty minutes and knew I had one last try. Glad it worked out! My skin got really cut on the second try due to the humidity but knew I could not try the next day so went all in on a last try. The top out is easy but I was quite scared. Definitely a no fall zone. But I knew I had it and if I had any doubt I could back off and have asked for the rope

What is next?
Just day dreaming about Poison the Well and continuing to train for the fall with my friends. I really would like to start the saga on arrival of the birds as well. But need to finish up PTW first before I change zones :)
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