Keyword: first ascent
50 sessions and 7 years to get through The Dark Side (8C+) | Hardest boulder in Yosemite Valley
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Carlo Traversi makes the first ascent of the most difficult boulder in Yosemite Valley: The Dark Side. Traversi suggests 8C+ as a rating.
Martin Feistl: “The greater the fears, the greater the experience”
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Martin Feistl on clean climbing style, risk assessment on tricky routes and mishaps with prominent climbing partners.
Tomoa Narasaki flashes 8C+ Boulder and downgrades to 8B+
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Tomoa Narasaki flashes Gakido and downgrades the 8C+ boulder to 8B+. Shortly afterwards he made the first ascent of Ashurado (8C).
What Stephan Siegrist’s nose has to do with Ondra’s latest 9a+ route
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With Chicken Nose (9a+), Adam Ondra has opened one of the most difficult routes in Switzerland on the Isenfluh. What their name is all about.
Pete Whittaker's hardest trad first ascent: Crown Royale (9a) | Video
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With Crown Royale (9a) Pete Whittaker climbed one of the most difficult trad routes in the world. Now there is his first ascent as a video.
Simon Gietl: “Being able to climb something like that at the beginning of November is like a birthday and Christmas together.”
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After an impressive first ice ascent: Simon Gietl about unexpected surprises on the first ascent, style discussions and early ice.
Imposing mixed route in the Dolomites first climbed
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Nicola Bertoldo and Diego Dellai open a new mixed route on the north face of Monte Agnèr: Ultima Perla (350m, 5+, M6, 50°).
New 9A boulder: Charles Albert climbs L'Ombre du voyageur
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9A boulder climbed: The French barefoot climber Charles Albert makes the first ascent of L'Ombre du voyageur.