[jwi]

Yet another XI+ in Frankenjura. But what's up with the third person singular?
http://www.markusbock.com/news/20140618

[a dense loner]

Where did you get the thread title and third person singular from? All I can see is he's called the route "Becoming", quite like the name.

[Nibile]

It's his blog, and he reports the ascent in third person. Nibile thinks it's a bit strange.

[dave]

Bock: The Craig David of climbing.

[SA Chris]

Bob Dole

[tomtom]

Bock: The Craig David of climbing.

:D

[Muenchener]

I don't have the latest Frankenjura guidebook edition - don't need it, am in little danger of running out of things to do in the 2009 edition that I have - but iirc there are something like 50 9a's in the area, of which Herr Bock is the FA of all but a handful.

Has anybody else (a) put up that many routes at that level, or (b) monopolised hard first ascents in a major climbing area to such an extent for such a long time? The other example that springs to mind is another German one, Toni Lamprecht at Kochel, but Kochel isn't by any stretch of the imagination a major destination like Franken.

[a dense loner]

Ahh I see. I read it as tho jwi thought the route was called "Becoming Marcus Bock". I can't think of any other major area where most of the hardest routes were put up by one man, he may be absolutely off his trolley but his legacy is superb

[jwi]

The list of the 100 hardest routes in Frankenjura is insane. I know of no one with the same legacy of hard routes in a single area.
http://www.markusbock.com/charts

[Wood FT]

old news, Ted's been speaking in the third person for weeks, said Guy.