Keyword: Nathaniel Coleman

New member of the 9A Club: Ritsu Kayotani reprises “No One Mourns the Wicked”

The 20-year-old Japanese climber has now achieved the fifth ascent of the line in Colorado. For Kayotani, it is his first boulder problem graded 9A – although this grade has been under discussion since Yannick Flohé's proposal to downgrade it to 8C+.

Beckett Hsin climbs 9A – and is the youngest person to reach the world's hardest bouldering grade.

Sixteen-year-old American Beckett Hsin has repeated "No One Mourns the Wicked" (9A) in Colorado, one of the hardest boulder problems in the world. He is now the youngest boulderer ever to achieve a 9A ascent.

This line was long considered impossible – No One Mourns the Wicked (9A)

At the end of last year, Nathaniel Coleman made the first ascent of the 9A boulder No One Mourns the Wicked. The line is the low version of the boulder Defying Gravity (8C), which was long considered impossible.

Nathaniel Coleman and Drew Ruana against The Grand Illusion (8c +)

Nathaniel Coleman and Drew Ruana battle one of the toughest bouldering projects in the United States: The Grand Illusion (8c +)

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