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Andy Mann is in South Africa living the dream, and he reports in his first blog for Climbing.com that Tony Lamiche has repeated Fred Nicole’s Rocklands, South Africa V15 Amandala.  You can see an old picture of Fred on it at Andy’s  blogsite.

Sharma, Andrada & Lamiche Bouldering At X-Tone

8a recently posted an interesting article on really hard (5.14d and up) routes that haven’t been repeated despite having been established years ago. Most of the routes seem unrepeated as much for their obscurity as for their difficulty, but it is definitely an interesting idea for discussion. I imagine a list for unrepeated [...]

Last week Tony Lamiche made the 5th ascent of Daniel Woods’s Mt. Evans, CO testpiece Ode to the Modern Man (V14).  You can see video of the send by clicking here.
He also has a very cool personal website with some great photos of himself, Matt Wilder, Dave Graham and Ty Landman climbing at Mt. Evans [...]

Here are a few videos to help pass your Friday:

Check out the Dailies #4 video at MometumVM for footage of Ethan Pringle working out the moves of Es Pontas. Apparently a bit harder than he was expecting…and he is working the top crux on toprope.
Ty Landman bouldering with a rope on Rumors of Glory [...]

Well, it looks like the French invasion has begun and Chad Greedy is on the scene.
Tony Lamiche climbing 2 V12’s in 1 day at Mt. Evans, CO:

The news on 8a.nu is that French crimp master Tony Lamiche is coming back to America:
Kairn : Your projects?
Tony : Beginning of septembre, I will leave for the US for a 2 months and
half bouldering trip.
I will go to Kentucky, at Red River Gorges where I will join some great
climbers such as Daniel Woods [...]