Verhoeven gives a personal upgrade of Dihedral wall

Planet Mountain has made an interview with Jorg Verhoeven after his second ascent of Tommy Caldwell's Dihedral Wall opened in 2004 on El Capitan. He says an interesting thing there: "climbing the Nose (the 8b+ he did in 2014) is a piece of cake compared to Dihedral wall," The overall lead World Cup winner 2008 thinks that Caldwell's 8b+ grade is equivalent to a sport 8c. In total, ten out of the 25 pitches are graded 8a and harder. In total, it took Jorg and his partner Katharina Saurwein five days to do it including a 20 hour push on the last day. (c) Jorg Verhoeven