Here are a few of the highlights from the past month of Yosemite rock climbing
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Stefano Ghisolfi has repeated Chris Sharma's Neanderthal (9b) in Santa Linya and in doing so has completed 3 of the 4 9b routes he has set his sights on for this season.
https://www.ukclimbing.com/forums/t.php?n=779887
Leo Billon and Enzo Oddo spent two nights making the first ascent of this test-piece where they aided one pitch at A4 before freeing it at M10
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Sean Villanueva O’Driscoll has completed a multi-year project on El Mocho
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Michaela Kiersch tops her amazing summer boulder spree with the first female ascent of Dreamtime at Cresciano in Ticino (Switzerland), the first ever Font 8C.
https://www.climber.co.uk/news/michaela-kiersch-makes-first-female-ascent-of-first-font-8c-dreamtime/
At the end of October, Austrian climber Barbara Zangerl made the sixth ascent – the second by a female - of Magic Line (5.14c/F8c+) in Yosemite Valley, California.
https://www.climber.co.uk/news/babsi-zangerl-makes-sixth-ascent-of-magic-line-5-14c-f8c-yosemite/
