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Sonnie Trotter and Tommy Caldwell have teamed up to establish a 15 pitch route up the Diamond Face on Mount Louis in the Canadian Rockies. Dubbed The Shining, the route has 7 pitches that were bolted on lead with difficulties up to 5.13+. After three days of prep the pair returned to free all the pitches in a single push:
It is one of the best routes I have ever climbed, and I could not imagine having a better partner for it. In fact, if it were not for Tommy, it would definitely still be a project. He’s my ultimate hero.
Fresh off overall gold at the World Championships and quickly redpointing two 5.14d’s, Adam Ondra has taken his talents to Rocklands, South Africa
Via his 8a.nu scorecard comes word that Alex Honnold has repeated the 5.14 trad route Cobra Crack in Squamish, BC. First done in the summer of 2006 by Sonnie Trotter, Cobra Crack has seen repeats from the likes of Nicolas Favresse, Ethan Pringle, Matt Segal, Yuji Hirahama and Will Stanhope among others.
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