27 December 2014

Samuel Ometz (18) does The Story of Two Worlds 8C

Samuel Ometz has done The Story of Two Worlds 8C in Cresciano which is the classical sit start to The Dagger 8B (+) which Samuel did almost two years ago. In the 8a ranking game, the 18 year old is #5. "Happy to finally climb it after having tried it so much last year, went first session first real try from the bottom this year! So unexpected! In the morning it was snowing and the end was wet, so we had to wait until it got dry. Don't really know if it deserves the grade though... I had to wait a moment before topping out because I could not feel my hands anymore but I still had feelings in the hard part." The Swizz was using Dave Graham's original sit start from 2005 which some thought was 8C+ at that time and the name actually refers to the Ticino grade inflation which was mainly stopped because of Dave's statement.
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