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I don't climb, never have, likely never will but I find it pretty interesting. It's just another form of exploring I guess with all the quirky personal challenges attached and I do enjoy a "first x" film.
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It's more problem solving than exploring. At the high end, they are trying a route hundreds of times making micro adjustments to body position until they crack it.
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This was released a long while back, when I was climbing more; on-sighting British trad climbs (where you have to put protection in as you go)
They're definitely measuring different things, but I suspect the 5.15 grade earlier is wildly harder than the E7 they're climbing here (not that I could dream of ever doing an E7)
chiroshi
christianSpaceman
I've not climbed really for ten years or so (and obviously was way, way beneath this level), but it seems to have moved on so far in difficulty since I took an interest. That's completely outrageous stuff