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Nalle climbs the Lappnor project (9A)!! (Read 63801 times)

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Mega!!

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This one looks like it could be really hard.

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Amazing stuff. Font 9a.  Incredible!

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Fucking awesome! Psyched to see the video!

Favourite for the second ascent?

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Favourite for the second ascent?

That bare foot guy

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When was the last time bouldering went up a number? This feels massively, earth shatteringly different.

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When was the last time bouldering went up a number? This feels massively, earth shatteringly different.

'84

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When was the last time bouldering went up a number? This feels massively, earth shatteringly different.

'84

Which problem?

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As in the first ever 8A?

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First 8A? 1975-ish. Slapshot/Trice/Meathook.

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So only 41 years since the last new number... :o

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When was the last time bouldering went up a number? This feels massively, earth shatteringly different.

'84

Which problem?

Sorry - I was thinking the first one in the forest.

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edit: whoops misread

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Significant

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First 8A? 1975-ish. Slapshot/Trice/Meathook.

They will never have been given 8a at the time though (were V grades even in use then?), so it's not really appropriate to call em "last time we had a new number". The last time we had a new number, i.e. the first 8a that was graded 8a at the time will almost certainly be in Font. I;m sure the old Pink Godoffe guide lists firsts at every grade, I can't remember the first 8a, something like L'aplat du Gain, or C'etait Demain.

EDIT: I'm pretty sure the first 8a it was C'etait Demain, 1984, Godoffe.

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Apparently the G repeated it last night by headtorch. Jugs compared to Shadowplay by all accounts. 

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Apparently the G repeated it last night by headtorch. Jugs compared to Shadowplay by all accounts.

I was waiting for this joke. Well played. :yes:

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It's astounding the lengths that some people will go to to boost their number of Instagram followers.

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It's astounding the lengths that some people will go to to boost their number of Instagram followers. #willhunt #over-caffeinated sugary drink company #scarpa #organic #Bettys #rockstar #shinyplums

Fixed that for you @WillHunt

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Apparently the ascent was caught on film. There's a massive amount of footage from earlier attempts, as some Finnish filmmakers went there forty times.

https://m.facebook.com/BlueKangooFilms/photos/a.977831925612427.1073741828.503428963052728/1203088239753460/?type=3

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Haven't been this vicariously psyched since Stu did Rainshadow. Font 9a, 'kin hell.

Also looking at Rustam for the repeat.

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Good effs for using vast experience of top-end bouldering and sticking his neck out to suggest 9A. Amazing effort to stick at it!

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Friggin sweet! It makes me unnaturally happy that what is quite possibly the hardest problem in the world is boning up dirty crimps on a 45 degree wall. Nowhere to hide there.

This. No stamina, no not sure where the proper start is, no contrived sit. So stoked for the guy.

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Just been going back through his instagram posts about the project. He tends to write quite long descriptions so a good story is told as you go back through the years. Starting 163 weeks ago...
"Tried this amazing new project yesterday! It's a very pure boulder with straight forward and thuggy frontal climbing. No trickery, just raw power! This will be a really hard one! #bouldering #climbing #island"

https://www.instagram.com/p/d34fcpSEr- 163w
https://www.instagram.com/p/ecWG2aSEo2 161w
https://www.instagram.com/p/fPdtwlSEnC 158w
https://www.instagram.com/p/fiHl6KyEpX 157w video..getting excited about nearly doing the first move
https://www.instagram.com/p/gBTqK6yEr2
https://www.instagram.com/p/gS6wGZSEpx
https://www.instagram.com/p/nXtEdRSEmQ 130w project is wet
https://www.instagram.com/p/oGcw7ZSEhL 127w finally does the last missing move
https://www.instagram.com/p/oLqlU_SEu4
https://www.instagram.com/p/odtrtryEl9 126w
https://www.instagram.com/p/pEfV6cyEl4 123w leaves it for another summer
https://www.instagram.com/p/tXzNV2SEix 108w back on it
https://www.instagram.com/p/t5SK6QyEjK 106w every move in a session
https://www.instagram.com/p/uQcB5OyEn2 105w almost linked in 2 parts
https://www.instagram.com/p/ux4XICSEsv 103w
https://www.instagram.com/p/0LNWV0yEng 84w
https://www.instagram.com/p/0aeI3lSEpz 83w
https://www.instagram.com/p/0xr_a0yEif
https://www.instagram.com/p/1sn-iaSEg9 79w Einstein famously said: "Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results"
https://www.instagram.com/p/3Gv3PuyEkw 74w
https://www.instagram.com/p/9oPbZKyEvc 50w does it from one move in to the top!
https://www.instagram.com/p/BDWHpIXyEhe 30w
https://www.instagram.com/p/BDszkZLSEsy 29w woods, graham and webb join in
https://www.instagram.com/p/BD8fyrYyErl 28w
https://www.instagram.com/p/BEyThXBSEs- 25w vid
https://www.instagram.com/p/BE8ujrZyEsw
https://www.instagram.com/p/BFZGD-TSEo7
https://www.instagram.com/p/BFl3Th5yEr4 22w long post about the frustration
https://www.instagram.com/p/BLToTs5ggwd 2w vid
https://www.instagram.com/p/BL9H0OSg8Fc Sent!

Slow day at work.

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Incredible exciting news and great name for a hard project and hard process.
Sort of puts that idea to bed that there is no room for development just in terms of raw power problems.

 

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