In climbing Watermark Extension, Roxy becomes just the second Scottish woman to have climbed a route at 8b - and the first in thirteen years - after Natalie Berry climbed SatanX (8b) at Gorges du Loup in 2012.
Pietro Vidi has made the second free ascent of Lurking Fear, 5.13c, El Capitan, twenty-five years after it was first freed by Tommy Caldwell and Beth Rodden, in 200.
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"That claim is exaggerated beyond all measure. It's so far from the truth, it's not even funny." - Ray Jardine
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L’Ombre du Voyageur V17 has yet to see a second ascent – with or without climbing shoes
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Matt Heliker has extended a V11 to the top of a cliff up some run-out terrain in the U.K.
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