Along with Memento, Anam Cara is one of the milestones in the Silvretta bouldering area. Lukas Mayerhofer recently managed to climb Bernd Zangerl's brutal line from a lower starting point. The strong Austrian suggests a difficulty level of 8C for Anam Cara low.
Already in 2020, when Lukas Mayerhofer in the bouldering area Silvretta After repeating Anam Cara within two sessions, he toyed with the idea of climbing from the start of British Airways directly into Bernd Zangerl's famous line. "When I tried it for the first time, I couldn't imagine linking the opening moves with Anam Cara."
A few days ago, Lukas Mayerhofer was able to connect the four starting moves in the 8A and Anam Cara (8B+) areas. Anam Cara low he rates it 8C.
This year was different and three sessions were enough! On to the next project.
Lukas Mayerhofer
Quick ascent of numerous difficult boulders
Lukas Mayerhofer has been going strong for a long time. Almost a year ago he managed the first ascent of Generation Z (9a), his most difficult sport climbing route to date. And in bouldering too, he repeated numerous difficult lines last year alone, usually in a relatively short space of time.
His ticklist includes Incubator (8B) in Zillertal, Dust devil (8B+), Bitter sweet (8B) and Sound of Silence (8B+) in Saalachtal, Ninjutsu (8B+) and Rise and fall (8B) in Val Bavona, Art of Grace (8B+) in Allgäu, American Gangster (8B+) in Sundergrund, Shutter Island sit (8b/+) in Erlerberg or Anam Cara (8B+) and Skiroute project (8B) in Silvretta.
Anam Cara: Milestone by Bernd Zangerl
In 2008, Austrian Bernd Zangerl said after successfully climbing Anam Cara: "The line is a dream. So logical, clear, without compromises... Every movement is hard and this crazy undercut move upwards is the most brutal thing I have ever done."
Anam Cara is the highlight of my climbing career and completing it was like a dream come true.
Bernd Zangerl
Zangerl gave the boulder a rating of 8c, later the boulder was downgraded by Paul Robinson and Daniel Woods, among others.
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