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Two of the world’s best doing their thing in the alpine areas of Colorado

Nalle Hukkataival is making his trip to the U.S. this summer count

Chris Schulte and Paul Robinson have done quick 2nd and 3rd ascents of Dave Graham’s recently opened V14 at Mt. Evans called Big Worm with Robinson suggesting it might be hard V13.  Picture of Robinson from Chuck Fryberger.  Pictures of Schulte.

Dave Graham has apparently recovered from his latest finger injury and is “syked to be climbing again”.  The other day he did the FA of Big Worm at Mt. Evans, CO for which he has suggested a grade of V14.

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 [...]