Keyword: to repeat
Line van den Berg and Fay Manners get Phantom Direct's first women's ascent on the Grandes Jorasses
Editors -
At the end of January, Line van den Berg from the Netherlands and Fay Manners from the UK climbed Phantom Direct in a single push in 31 hours. With this venture, they not only secure the first women-only ascent of the route, also known as 'Via in memoria di Gianni Comino'. They are probably only the fourth rope team to have successfully repeated this route from 1985.