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+.
Three climbers have established two aesthetic mountain lines after changing plans from main objective
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After falling in love with Paradise Wall in 2023, she came back to send the wall's king line Spirit Quest 5.14d
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Will Bosi has made the first ascents of two new hard boulders in Switzerland, Brain Rot, 8C+, in Magic Wood, and Kyanite, 8C, in Val Bavona.
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Some history about boulder #climbing grades. From easy, all the way to unforgiving nightmare xD V17 looks absolutely nuts.Not sure if I learnt anything new about grades, other than lower V is easy and higher V is difficult though lol Some of the middle blocks in the scale look somewhat similar to me.https://youtu.be/DnvpYvzbcg8?si=mA06GWeeA_gApGtL
First climbed in the 1980s, it's become one of the most-climb pitches at the grade in Squamish
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