Forty years after making the first ascent, Ben Moon is back on Statement of Youth, aroute that not only represented the cutting edge in terms of difficulty at the time of its first ascent, but also marked the dawn of a new approach to the discipline of climbing in the UK as a whole.
Climbing caught up with the American sport climber shortly after she released her first album on Spotify. We talked art, music, modeling, and what’s next.
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The climber from Wisconsin was rappelling pitch two of a popular 5.8 trad route when he fell.
https://www.climbing.com/news/21-year-old-dies-rappelling-accident-on-devils-tower/
He recently climbed Isles of Wonder, one of the hardest boulders in the U.K.
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