8 October 2025
Tommy Caldwell shows his 8c tricks on Empath 9a (+)
Carlo Traversi put up Empath (9a+) in 2020. The grade was first confirmed a couple of times before Ethan Pringle called it 9a using "jammis". Connor Herson is the only one who has done it on trad gear. Earlier this summer Tommy Caldwell, 46, repeated it and thought it was 8c. Now a video has been released where Caldwell shows his jamming techniques with rubber gloves.
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