Pietro Vidi has made the second ascent of Charles Albert's L'Ombre du Voyageur (f9A)in Salve,Haute-Savoie, in the French Prealps. He has proposed a grade of 8B+.
https://www.ukclimbing.com/forums/t.php?n=783147
Today was an absolutely beautiful day to start #climbing outside again. We went back to Landelies, near Charleroi because it's a warm south-facing crag with ample opportunity to get reacquainted with tiny rock holds after climbing indoors on plastic during the winter.
It follows a long ridge to the top of one of the highest peaks in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta
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I top roped with the Petzl 8003 full body harness today and it worked great! Would recommend for folks who want to continue #climbing while pregnant(And yes, this is apparently my announcement to the void about being pregnant. The internet says my baby will be banana sized next week)
The ascent comes just two weeks after his repeat of Change, the world's first 5.15c
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When we fail on large moves, most of us tend to think we just need to pull more and pull harder—and our training reflects this bias toward the upper body.
https://www.climbing.com/skills/hips-climbing-training/
