Too Big to Flail (V10/5.13d) the super highball at Bishop, USA established in 2012 by Alex Honnold. Pictured here Fabian Buhl during his 2017 ascent Photo by Fabian Buhl archive
Nina Williams making the first female ascent of the highball boulder problem Ambrosia (V11, 8A) at the Buttermilks, Bishop, USA Photo by Nayton Rosales
On 18/03/2019 America's Nina Williams repeated Too Big to Flail, claiming the first female ascent of this huge highball boulder problem at Buttermilks, Bishop, USA.
American climber Nina Williams is garnering a reputation for nerves of steel and hard highballs. Two years after making the first female ascent Ambrosia, the famous highball at the Buttermilks put up by Kevin Jorgeson in 2009, Williams now checks in with the first female ascent of the tallest highball of all, Too Big to Flail.
The 50-foot boulder problem in the Beehive area was established in 2012 by the ever-cool, calm and collected Alex Honnold and boasts a V10 crux at circa half-height. Williams unlocked the sequence last year on toprope, as per usual, and walked the line on March 18th. Hers is only the seventh ascent after Honnold, Lonnie Kauk (2013), Steven Roth (2014), Ethan Pringle (2014), Fabian Buhl (2017) and Nick Muehlhausen (2018).
22.12.2017 Fabian Buhl highball hattrick at Bishop, USA At the bouldering area Buttermilks in Bishop, USA, Germany’sFabian Buhl has climbed three difficult highball boulder problems: Ambrosia, Too big to flail and Old Greg.
16.01.2012 Alex Honnold, new super highball at Bishop At the Buttermilks in Bishop (USA) Alex Honnold has freed Too Big to Flail, a super highball up the immense Luminance Block.
10.02.2014 America, Bouldering, Climbing = Bishop, Buttermilks, California Claudia Colonia and Alessandro Penna report about their climbing trip to one of the most beautiful, and important bouldering areas in the USA: Buttermilks close to Bishop, California.