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Back in April, Kevin Jorgeson and Paul Robinson made quick repeats of Dave Graham’s Rumney, NH testpiece The Fly (5.14d/V14).  Kevin’s ascent was particularly noteworthy as he was the 2nd person after Jason Kehl to eschew a rope for the 20 and some odd foot tall route.
Check out this video from Tim Kemple of Kevin’s [...]

Joe Kinder is reporting on his blog that Kevin Jorgeson has made the 2nd ropeless ascent of Dave Graham’s The Fly (5.14d, V13/14?) in Rumney, NH. The first ropeless ascent was by Jason Kehl back in 2003. It sounds like video cameras were rolling for Kevin’s ascent so I guess we can look [...]

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 [...]