Nalle Hukkataival hard boulders in Norway

Nalle Hukkataival from Finland has established two FB8B and flashed two Fb8A+ in Norway.
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Nalle Hukkataival on the first ascent of the aptly named Outlook, a high quality sandstone with a small lighthouse on top of boulder.
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The Finnish boulderer Nalle Hukkataival has recently terminated his road trip to Norway during which he carried out, in true Hukkataival style, an impressive number of hard repeats and first ascents. 

Concentrating on the areas close to Trondheim, Harbak, Vingsand and the Lofoten Islands (when it stopped snowing!), Hukkataival flashed two Fb8A+ (Fokus and Talib) and established two Fb8B, Rough Gem and The Diamond. The latter proved to be the highlight of the trip, as Nalle blogs: "I had seen photos of this amazing diamond shaped boulder already two years ago. Just seeing the photos got me syked to go there and hearing that both Fred Nicole and Bernd Zangerl have tried it was sort of a conformation that it has to be pretty good. People who had worked on it speculated that it must be 8B+. Later an important hold broke off making it even harder. I managed to do the first ascent in one day and that's why I didn't think it was quite hard enough to be 8B+, so I gave it 8B. We'll see what other people think of the grade. Regardless of the grade The Diamond is an amazing problem. It must be one of the best boulders I've climbed in Europe."

Norway ticklist
The Diamond 8B   First Ascent
Rough Gem 8B     First Ascent
Trouble 8A+
Fokus 8A+     FLASH
Talib 8A+       FLASH
Origins 8A+
Straight Outta Hellvika 8A+        First Ascent
Lada Miestä Kuljettaa Assis 8A+
Cool Hand Luke 8A
Sømp 8A
Lynx 8A
Torstein problem 8A
Full Battery 8A         First Ascent
Paddington 8A
Hurtigruttan 7C+
Strong Youth 7C+
Neptune 7C+
Akkurat Der 7C+
Midnight Sun 7C+
Tare Baby 7C+
Nesten der 7C+
Midnight Madness ?      First Ascent
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