Sascha Lehmann climbs El Molinero and witch's kitchen within two days

The 20-year-old Sascha Lehmann transfers the top performance from the competition season 2018 to the rock and climbs without further ado El Molinero (8c +) and witches kitchen (8b +) in the climbing area Gimmelwald. The second-named route even succeeded in only two attempts.

The strongly overhanging wall in the climbing area gimmelwald is popular with ambitious climbers and climbers, because it offers heavy routes in rows. If you want to have fun here, you should visit 8. Can climb the French level. This is the Burgdorf Sascha Lehmann certainly the case. He climbs the 21. September 2018 two tough chunks: El Molinero (8c +) and Hexenküche (8b +). Two days later he drove to the Basel Jura and scored one of the most famous climbing routes in Switzerland: Ravage (8b + / c). The route was first climbed by Antoine Le Menestrel and was considered the hardest route in the world in 1986.

Gimmelwald is also popular with foreign athletes, here Jonathan Siegrist

Video with Andi Winterleitner in Hexenküche

Credits: picture Sascha Lehmann

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