Stoking the Fire 9b by Stefano Ghisolfi

Stefano Ghisolfi, #2 in the World Cup 2018, has done his sixth 9b, Stoking the Fire in Santa Linya. "Wet holds and poor conditions, no excuses! Super happy, and motivated for the Direct version." (c) Sara Grippo Chris Sharma put it up in 2013 and later Adam Ondra, Jakob Schubert and Sachi Amma have repeated it. Including Ghisolfi's ascent it is the second most repeated 9b after Fight or Flight with six ascents, FA also Chris Sharma. "I tried the route as soon as I came here.The first four days the weather was amazing and I tried the sections very well and I felt immediately comfortable. After the fourth day I realized that I could do it very fast and wanted to give some tries in the next days. It rained a lot, but I thought in the cave it should be possible to climb anyway but I was wrong, water poured and when it stopped raining outside it started to rain inside and it was very very wet. Most of the holds later dried but some of them were still pouring, so I dried them first and then protected them with aluminum paper."