significant repeats

[remus]

While waiting for her main project to dry Chaehyun Seo has onsighted Fish Eye 8c at Oliana. Janja, Laura Rogora and Chaehyun Seo are the only women to have onsighted multiple 8cs and Kasja Rosen is the only other woman to have onsighted 8c so it is very much the top level (until Janja spends more than a few days outside).

https://www.instagram.com/p/DC2nZkStEHs/?img_index=1

 

[jwi]

Kasja Rosen

Kajsa Rosén

 

[remus]

Kasja Rosen

Kajsa Rosén

Thanks, I was literally staring at the list as I wrote that so no excuses other than stupidity

 

[jwi]

In ten years in France not a single colleague ever spelled my family name correctly.

Copy+paste exist for a reason

 

[andy popp]

In ten years in France not a single colleague ever spelled my family name correctly.

?!?! Your name is incredibly simple.

 

[Wellsy]

Yeah it's just "i" right? Easy

 

[jwi]

In ten years in France not a single colleague ever spelled my family name correctly.

?!?! Your name is incredibly simple.

My given name is simple enough. My family name doesn't compute in French (or Spanish ) so people just throw together a bunch of letters in random order.

I once had a lady at social security hang up on me after being unable to type in what I spelled out.

 

[SA Chris]

Yeah it's just "i" right? Easy

I think it's "wi" actually...

 

[remus]

A bit outside the usual, but Oliver Tippett has spent this year ticking his way through seemingly all the hard aid routes Yosemite has to offer. All solo.

Zenyatta Mondatta
Atlantis
Tempest
Reticent Wall
Sea of Dreams
Virginia
Zodiac
Native Son
Neptune

Bet he's placed his fair share of marginal beaks, sketchy pegs and thin hooks. He's got a entertaining youtube channel as well, where entertaining = 30ft falls on to a hook.

https://www.youtube.com/@olivertippett/videos

https://www.ukclimbing.com/logbook/showlog.php?id=255269&sort=x&country=&crag=&gradetype=5&partner=&year=&season=&hide_dnf=1&newfilter=1&nresults=100&pg=1

 

[remus]

Good few days for Josh Ibbertson in Red River Gorge with flashes of Omaha Beach 8b+, Transworld Depravity 8b+ and God's Own Stone 8b+.

Rhos Frugniet has also redpointed God's Own Stone.

 

[Fellover]

Aid climbing on ukb, never thought I'd see the day!

I think it might be the highest density of hard el cap aid solos ever.

I think he's also closing in on having done the largest number of different el cap routes solo.

Fwiw I think a couple of those listed were with partners, e.g. Atlantis.

I wonder if he's done more distinct el cap solos than all other brits put together. On reflection, seems unlikely, but I bet it's not that far off!

 

[remus]

Colin Duffy has repeated Defying Gravity 8C in a session (8 goes to be precise). Not the biggest numbers, but the problem basically boils down to an 8B+ move in to an 8A, and after Jimmy Webb made the second ascent in 2014 went unrepeated for the best part of 10 years.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6yiXZVcyrQ

 

[jakaitch]

Madness! Blows my mind what some of the top comp folk are doing when they womble off outside

 

[Fiend]

That's one for the parkour running along volumes into an out-facing smear pirouette comp folk for sure :blink:

 

[jakaitch]

Hamish McArthur repeated The Singularity in squamish

 

[webbo]

I keep get stuff on face ache about Nico Ceria ? Repeating Dan Variables stuff at Christian crags. Is this recent or ancient.

 

[jakaitch]

Recent, I think... https://www.instagram.com/reel/DDKWrqcNm_p/?igsh=cDFpOXNpcnZwMHhi

 

[jakaitch]

Hamish McArthur repeated The Singularity in squamish

Just reread his caption, cant work out if he flashed it..?

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DDK0xcdIY9g/?igsh=dmhqOXg0b2FmcWxi

 

[Felix14]

Hmm, I reckon he just ground upped the top?

 

[edshakey]

Hamish McArthur repeated The Singularity in squamish

Just reread his caption, cant work out if he flashed it..?

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DDK0xcdIY9g/?igsh=dmhqOXg0b2FmcWxi

That's my interpretation!

Last Thursday, in a proleptic state of rapture, I knelt before The Singularity. There is just one video, showing one single attempt of me on this iconic granite line, which goes some way to explain my disbelief as I slowly ascend beyond the lip. It is not even that I couldn't comprehend the miracle of linking moves that I hadn't yet done, but that space and time themselves were hiding from me, that I was both spread across the universe and infinitely dense, all in one place, trying not to overthink if I was dreaming.

To me, this is a combination of doing something mindblowing, that you've never attempted before: a 8C flash? Would be an amazing feat if so :strongbench: