remus said:Nice! Fifth ascent I think?
Pete Whittaker has made the fourth ascent of Stranger than Fiction E10/8c, Mason Earle's desert crack that Lor Saborin recently repeated.
remus said:Pete Whittaker has made the fourth ascent of Stranger than Fiction E10/8c, Mason Earle's desert crack that Lor Saborin recently repeated.
remus said:Ryohei Kameyama maaaay have flashed a problem called Flux 8C in Japan, pretty unclear though.
In this vid it has an overlay which says 'first go' which is ambiguous. He also posted about doing the problem on insta a couple of weeks ago, but with no mention of it being a flash which feels odd if he has flashed it.
It's within the realms of possibility though as he's certainly got the palmares (No Kpote Only second ascent, Floatin etc. https://climbing-history.org/climber/669/ryohei-kameyama)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcBSdRuzJI0
https://www.instagram.com/p/CzoJIffSU3a/
brbushell said:remus said:Ryohei Kameyama maaaay have flashed a problem called Flux 8C in Japan, pretty unclear though.
In this vid it has an overlay which says 'first go' which is ambiguous. He also posted about doing the problem on insta a couple of weeks ago, but with no mention of it being a flash which feels odd if he has flashed it.
It's within the realms of possibility though as he's certainly got the palmares (No Kpote Only second ascent, Floatin etc. https://climbing-history.org/climber/669/ryohei-kameyama)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcBSdRuzJI0
https://www.instagram.com/p/CzoJIffSU3a/
It looks like he climbed a higher start to this earlier this year called Alter so I'm guessing Flux may have just been first go from the start
https://www.instagram.com/p/CsTAZR9S5M3/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==
remus said:Tomoa has flashed Gakidō 8C+ in Japan! After some discussion with Shinichiro Nomura (who made the FA) he's suggested a downgrade to 8B+. It'll be interesting to see where it settles, as Ryuichi Murai suggested 8C+ when he made the second ascent and both Ryuichi and Shinichiro have the palmares.
Reading the comments from the various ascents it sounds like an unusual problem, with some funny positions that mean the problem looks like it is easier than it actually feels on the go. Sounds like it fit Tomoa pretty well though, so maybe it's one of those that is a bit morpho and feels significantly easier if you fit in the box.
I could imagine it settling down to 8C, which would make Tomoa's ascent the first ever flash of an 8C.
Tomoa also added the sit, which adds a 4 move 8B in to the stand. Doing some napkin grade maths, even if you think the stand is 8B+ it's surely going to add up to at least 8C+.
https://www.instagram.com/p/C1GGUEsPL3U/