The other channel reports that Dave Graham has repeated Daniel Woods' recent 8C+, Creature from the Black Lagoon. He also added a new 8C a couple of weeks ago. Graham can be no spring chicken now. Its impressive to see him still pushing as hard as he can.
WOW!!! Elated to make the 2nd ascent of @dawoods89 new rig Creature From the Black Lagoon yesterday up in Upper Chaos!!! After around 16 days of effort since the spring, I managed to figure out the incredibly subtle change to my sequence which opened the gateway for the send!! After so many days of regression and frustrating conditions, late night pondering, hundreds of failed ideas, the solution had been in front of me the entire time. A crazy arm-torque turned stand-up yoga-type movement was the enabling addition in my sequence, allowing me to engage the undercling I battled with for so long properly, and achieve the body position I needed to keep it moving forward. I was in no way expecting any attempt would yield a send by that point in the session, and as I set off with my 101th idea of how I could make it work, it ACTUALLY worked. It felt surreal; what was just another burn was turning into something more, move for move, high point surpassed, virgin terrain, the foot didn't slip, and ai had the starting holds to Leviathan. Reality set in, it was time to NOT punt, the dreaded possibility of failure existed, but soon enough the sketchiest moves were finished, I was in a knee bar, upside down, the switch was flipped, sport climbing mode, breathing, nervous, toe hook, SLAB, SUMMIT!!! Huge thanks to @dawoods89 and @giuliano_cameroni for rollin up there with me so many times and supporting my struggles on what is probably the hardest thing I have ever climbed! This climb suits me, but still pushed me farther than anything I have ever done that is graded 8C. Time will tell, but 8C+ seems completely logical. Photos and video coming soon up at @island_io 🗿#weareisland @petzl_official @fiveten_official @walltopia @frictionlabs #trangoworld 📸 @bearcam
Quote from: andy popp on October 25, 2016, 09:52:05 pmThe other channel reports that Dave Graham has repeated Daniel Woods' recent 8C+, Creature from the Black Lagoon. He also added a new 8C a couple of weeks ago. Graham can be no spring chicken now. Its impressive to see him still pushing as hard as he can.last time I spoke to him he said he was 33... ...so he's probably 34 now.
Don't tell me Dave didn't invite you to his birthday party? It was great.
Scottish teenager climbs Hubble. Again.Nice work William
Yes Toby Roberts (11 years old) has done Revelations one year after doing Raindogs I know I did these in 1990 and 1991 but it's pretty significant baring his age 😀!!!
Yeah I've been trying it every year for over 15 years now. I always thought it was a height thing. Then Jim did it. Toby's sequence is bonkers. He uses invisible holds. And yes, I'm shit
Koyamada’s success comes in the wake of an impressive sending spree that includes The House of Shock 9a, The Essential 9a, Elder Statesman 9a, The last rites 8c+, Unplugged 9a and Zootopia 8c＋. Not bad for a 40-year-old.
